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Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Tues­day that the U.S. has car­ried out a strike in the south­ern Caribbean against a drug-car­ry­ing ves­sel that de­part­ed from Venezuela and was op­er­at­ed by the Tren de Aragua gang.

The pres­i­dent said 11 were killed in the op­er­a­tion.

“The strike oc­curred while the ter­ror­ists were at sea in In­ter­na­tion­al wa­ters trans­port­ing il­le­gal nar­cotics, head­ing to the Unit­ed States,” Trump said in a so­cial me­dia post­ing. “No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. Please let this serve as no­tice to any­body even think­ing about bring­ing drugs in­to the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca.”