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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Hugo Lowell in Washington and Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

Trump announces deadly US strike on another alleged Venezuelan drug boat

Boat in water
Trump said the strike was carried out against ‘confirmed narco-terrorists’. Photograph: Truth Social/Donald Trump

Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States had carried out a strike on a second Venezuelan boat and killed three alleged terrorists he claimed were transporting drugs, expanding his administration’s war against drug cartels and the scope of lethal military force to stop them.

The US president gave few details about the strike, saying in a social media post that the action was on his orders and that it had happened earlier in the morning. The post was accompanied by a video clip showing the boat, which appeared to be stationary, erupting into a fireball.

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