Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Sunday that the US conducted a strike Friday on a ship that American intelligence officials believed was involved in illegal drug trafficking in the Caribbean.

U.S. military drone strike destroyed a drug-smuggling submersible in the Caribbean Thursday, leaving 2 to 3 survivors in the water, a U.S. official tells Fox News.

It would be the first known account of survivors in the Trump administration’s strikes to counter narcoterrorist groups allegedly led by Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.

The US is releasing the two survivors of Thursday’s military strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia, President Donald Trump said Saturday.

President Donald Trump said two narco-terror suspects survived a U.S. military strike on a drug-carrying submarine, claiming it carried fentanyl and could have killed 25,000 Americans.

Two men rescued by the U.S. military after it attacked a boat in the Caribbean Sea were being sent to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador, President Trump said.

Police in Trinidad and Tobago said they have received reports that two of the country's citizens were killed in a U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat.

By Andrea de Silva LAS CUEVAS, Trinidad and Tobago (Reuters) -Relatives of a Trinidadian man who say he was killed in a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean this week are demanding evidence to back up allegations by U.