US conducts ‘kinetic strike’ against drug boat from Venezuela, killing 11, Trump says
by Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent from US news | The Guardian on (#6ZR40)
Trump says we took it out' referring to the operation in international waters, amid US-Caracas tensions
The US military has killed 11 drug traffickers from Venezuela during a a kinetic strike" in the Caribbean Sea, the US president, Donald Trump, has claimed amid growing tensions between Washington and Caracas.
Trump trailed the announcement during an address at the White House on Tuesday afternoon, telling reporters the US had just, over the last few minutes, literally shot out ... a drug-carrying boat".
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