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Venezuela’s Am­bas­sador to T&T, Ál­varo Sánchez Cordero, is dis­miss­ing re­ports that a re­cent US mil­i­tary airstrike near Venezue­lan wa­ters killed sus­pect­ed drug traf­fick­ers, de­scrib­ing the in­ci­dent as pos­si­bly fic­ti­tious.

Po­lice of­fi­cers in this coun­try have the­o­rised that two uniden­ti­fied bod­ies that washed ashore last week may have been among 11 peo­ple killed in the Sep­tem­ber 2 strike. The US mil­i­tary claimed it de­stroyed a drug-smug­gling ves­sel op­er­at­ed by the Tren de Aragua, a Venezue­lan crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tion des­ig­nat­ed as a for­eign ter­ror­ist group by the US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion.

How­ev­er, speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, Am­bas­sador Cordero ques­tioned the va­lid­i­ty of the re­ports. He re­fused to com­ment on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s con­tro­ver­sial “kill them all vi­o­lent­ly” state­ment in sup­port of the US ac­tion.