WASHINGTON — The two survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries, President Donald Trump said Saturday.

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The two survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries

That's according to a social medial post by President Donald Trump

The military rescued the pair after striking a submersible vessel Thursday, in what was at least the sixth such attack since early September

The repatriation avoids questions for the Trump administration about what the legal status of the two would have been in the U.S. justice system

The military rescued the pair after striking

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