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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has rejected a call from Colombian president Gustavo Petro to search for the bodies of those killed by the US in an airstrike on an alleged drug boat on September 2.

In an immediate response to Newsday, via Whatsapp on September 9, Persad-Bissessar said the TT government will not waste resources on searching for the remains of the 11 people who were killed. However, she said, “Any carcass that washes up on our shores, we will recover it.”

In a post to X (formerly Twitter) on September 9, Petro said, “It is extremely important that the Caribbean republic of Trinidad and Tobago search for remains of the civilian dead from the US bombing of a civilian vessel, about which we do not know if it was carrying drugs, and if it was, it should not have been bombed.