US President Donald Trump has announced that Washington had destroyed a drug-smuggling submarine in the Caribbean and was sending two surviving suspects back to their home countries, Ecuador and Colombia, following a military strike that killed two others on board. 

Trump claimed on Social that the vessel was loaded with fentanyl and other narcotics and was navigating towards the United States on a well-known narco-trafficking transit route. The President also alleged that if the submarine had been allowed to reach the United States then at least 25,000 Americans would have died. Since September, at least six vessels  mostly speedboats have been targeted by US forces in the Caribbean, with some allegedly originating from Venezuela.