On the 16th local time, a spokesman for Trinidad and Tobago Fishermen and Friends of the Sea said that the U.S. military carried out an air strike on a ship in international waters near Venezuela this week, killing six people, including two Trinidad and Tobago people.
A spokesman said Trinidad and Tobago’s Maritime Law stipulates that suspicious vessels must be intercepted rather than exploded.
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a statement on social media that the U.S. military sinked another “drug trafficking ship” in international waters near the Venezuelan coast on the same day, killing six people on board.
This is the fifth time since September that the Trump administration has announced military action against "drug ships" in international waters off Venezuela. So far, it has claimed to have destroyed five so-called "drug ships" and killed 27 "drug dealers". (Headquarters reporter Deng Xuemei)