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Another alleged drug boat struck by U.S. military
Los Angeles Times
|October 15, 2025
The United States struck another small boat allegedly carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people, President Trump said Tuesday.
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS AFP/Getty Images PRESIDENT TRUMP looks on at the end of a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday.
Those who died in the strike were aboard the vessel, and no U.S. forces were harmed, Trump said in a social media post. It's the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean Sea as Trump's administration has asserted it's treating alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who must be met with military force.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the strike Tuesday morning, said Trump, who released a video of it, as he had in the past.
Trump said the strike was conducted in international waters and “Intelligence” confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with “narcoterrorist networks” and was on a known drug trafficking route.
This story is from the October 15, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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