Video shows men clinging to boat after Caribbean airstrike

Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean clung to the wreckage for an hour before they were killed in a second attack, according to a video of the episode shown to senators in Washington.

- Joseph Gedeon Chris Stein Washington

The men were unarmed and carried no visible communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the US military was weighing up whether to finish them off, sources familiar with the recording said.

The video of the attack on 2 September was seen by senators behind closed doors on Thursday amid growing concern that the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, and other officials who ordered the attack may have committed a war crime.