A new version of the fight against the cartel. Trump boasts about destroying a drug submarine

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that American forces had destroyed a “huge drug submarine” that was heading towards the United States. Two people on board died in the attack. Two survivors will be sent back to their countries of origin.

“It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG SUBMARINE that was heading towards the United States along a well-known drug smuggling route,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website.

He added that American intelligence confirmed that the unit transported drugs, primarily fentanyl.

Trump said there were four people on board, whom he called “narco-terrorists.”

Two people who were on board died. Two more survivors will be sent back to their countries of origin, i.e. Ecuador and Colombia, where – as the president announced – they will be detained and proceedings will be initiated against them.

Earlier, Reuters reported, citing sources, that the US Navy fired on another boat in the Caribbean Sea on Thursday, which Washington believed could be involved in drug smuggling.

He is a survivor. President of Colombia: He will be treated according to the law

A citizen of this country, a survivor of the US military attack on a drug-smuggling submarine in the Caribbean Sea, has returned to Colombia, announced Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Saturday. Earlier, US President Donald Trump announced the destruction of the boat.

“We received a Colombian detained on a drug submarine, we are glad that he is alive and will be treated according to the law,” Petro wrote on the X platform.

Donald Trump announced earlier on Saturday that U.S. forces had destroyed a “huge drug submarine” that was heading toward the United States. He added that two of the four people on board had died and that two survivors – a Colombian and an Ecuadorian – would be sent back to their countries of origin.

The US president called the boat's crew members “narco-terrorists” and assured that American intelligence had confirmed that the vessel was transporting illegal substances, mainly fentanyl.

So far, 29 people have died as a result of American attacks on boats which, according to the services, are involved in drug smuggling, the Washington Post reported. After one of such attacks, Petro suggested that Colombian citizens were among the victims. (PAP)

From Washington Natalia Dziurdzińska (PAP)

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