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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Petro claims US strike in Caribbean may have killed Colombian citizens

UN General Assembly Colombia - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday there were “signs” that the last small boat attacked by the U.S. military off the coast of Venezuela was carrying Colombian citizens.

“A new front in the war has opened: the Caribbean,” Petro wrote on the social platform X. “Signs show that the last bombed boat was Colombian with Colombian citizens aboard.”

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