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US military reportedly Another suspected drug boat attacked In the Caribbean on Thursday, two US officials told CNN.
This will be a strike, which has not yet been publicly confirmed sixth such attack since last month.
The alleged operation is considered the first strikes To leave the survivors behind.
U.S. military Search and rescue operations have been launched for two or three survivors of Thursday’s strike, whose injuries are unknown, an official said told Fox News.
Independent have contacted Pentagon and White House For comment.
Ahead of Thursday’s alleged strike, which was first reported by reuters27 people have been killed in US attacks on alleged drug boats passing through the region.
There is very little information about who was on these boats.
Chad Joseph, 26, from Trinidad and Tobago, may be one of six people killed in a similar attack earlier this week, according to his family.
Joseph, a fisherman from the village of Las Cuevas, had been living in Venezuela in recent months. His family said he frequently traveled to the Caribbean for his work as a fisherman.
“I don’t want to believe this is my baby,” her mother, Lenore Burnley, told the new York Times“Is it really true?”
Joseph’s family has denied that he is a drug smuggler.
The Trump administration has claimed All the people on board that ship were “male narcotic terrorists”.
These attacks have proven controversial both inside and outside the US
Admiral Alvin Hosley, head of the US Southern Command, which is monitoring the attacks, said, Will retire at the end of the yearAccording to the Defense Department, after Hosley reportedly expressed concerns about the attacks.
Venezuela, whose citizens are believed to have been killed in earlier attacks on the boats, has sharply criticized the US military buildup in the region and organized their own troops and militia forces,
Legal observers have warned that the strikes may not be legal, despite the White House insisting the US Formally engaged in “armed conflict” with drug cartels The President has labeled them “unlawful combatants,” unleashing extraordinary wartime powers.
“All available evidence shows that President Trump’s deadly attacks in the Caribbean are murder pure and simple,” Jeffrey Stein, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, said in a recent statement. “The public deserves to know how our government is legitimizing these attacks, and, given the stakes, immediate public scrutiny of its clearly radical principles is warranted.”
President Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he has authorized CIA missions inside Venezuela as part of the anti-narcotics crackdown.
The President said the US is considering a land campaign against Venezuela after the naval attacks.
“We are certainly looking at the land now that we’ve got the sea under control,” he said. Said Wednesday.
The United States is undergoing its largest military buildup in the Caribbean region since the 1980s. It has sent fighter aircraft, an attack submarine, spy jets and eight naval warships to the area.