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US president Donald Trump has announced that six people were killed in a military strike carried out in international waters off the coast of Venezuela on October 14, as part of ongoing operations targeting narcotrafficking routes.
President Trump posted the statement on X (formerly Twitter), and various officials, including US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, shared it.
“Under my Standing Authorities as commander-in-chief, this morning, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela.”
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