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The fam­i­ly of Rishi Sama­roo is speak­ing out for the first time since news that he was re­port­ed­ly among two Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als killed in a US strike on a sus­pect­ed drug-smug­gling ves­sel on Oc­to­ber 14 just off Venezuela.

Sama­roo’s rel­a­tives con­tin­ue to main­tain his in­no­cence, as they say they cry dai­ly, not know­ing what has hap­pened to him. Rel­a­tives rub­bished claims that he was in­volved in nar­co-traf­fick­ing.

Re­spond­ing to ques­tions by Guardian Me­dia, his fam­i­ly in­sist­ed, “Rishi was every­thing to us!”