What happened with the latest U.S. strike in the Caribbean?
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The latest U.S. strike in the Caribbean targeted a suspected drug-carrying submarine, resulting in two deaths and two survivors, who will be repatriated to Colombia and Ecuador. This marks the sixth such strike in recent weeks amid a major U.S. military buildup in the region.
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U.S. will repatriate survivors of Caribbean strike, Trump says
- President Trump announced survivors of a Caribbean vessel strike will be sent home.
- The U.S. military struck a semi-submersible suspected of drug trafficking and rescued two survivors. 13s
- Survivors will be repatriated to Colombia and Ecuador to avoid legal complications. 23s
- The strike was the sixth recent U.S. action against suspected drug vessels in the region. 1m 5s
- The incident occurs amid heightened U.S. military presence in the Caribbean. 1m 10s
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The strike was carried out on Thursday and killed two people, according to Trump. It was the sixth such strike on suspected trafficking boats since September. Two survivors from Ecuador and Colombia were taken into custody and later returned to their home countries.
Two people were killed in a strike on Thursday, and two survivors were brought to a Navy ship. The president now says the U.S. will send the two men back to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia for detention and prosecution.
For a sixth time since September, the U.S. military struck a vessel in the Caribbean Thursday night, this time what Trump called a submarine. Unlike previous strikes, which killed everyone on board, two individuals survived the Thursday attack and are now being held on one of eight Navy warships in the region.
It's the first one that we know of that is thought to have survivors. We don't know who was targeted, how many survived, how many were killed, but the previous strikes in the over a month-and-a-half have targeted alleged drug vessels, killing nearly 30 people in total.