Washington: US President Donald Trump has announced that Washington had destroyed a “drug-smuggling submarine” in the Caribbean and was sending two surviving suspects back to their home countries, Ecuador and Colombia, following a military strike that killed two others on board.

“It was my great honour to destroy a very large drug-carrying submarine that was navigating towards the United States on a well-known narcotrafficking transit route,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform on Saturday (local time), claiming that the vessel was loaded with fentanyl and other narcotics.

The President alleged that if the submarine had been allowed to reach the United States, “at least 25,000 Americans would have died.”

“There were four known narcoterrorists on board the vessel. Two of the terrori

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