WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is repatriating two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike this past week on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute them or hold them in military detention, President Donald Trump announced Saturday.

The men who survived were being returned to their home countries, Colombia and Ecuador, “for detention and prosecution,” the president said in a posting on his Truth Social account.

Trump also posted a 29-second video showing a semisubmersible vessel that was traveling partially below the water being blown up. He said two other suspected drug smugglers, whom he called “terrorists,” had been killed in the attack.

It was not immediately possible to confirm that either Colombia or Ecuador had agreed to prosecute the two men.

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