President Donald Trump said that US forces had attacked a boat carrying drugs to the United States Tuesday, killing 11 “narcoterrorists” from a gang he alleged was controlled by leftist Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

Trump posted a video online of an open-topped speedboat carrying a number of people traveling on a body of water before it exploded in a ball of flames.

The move is a potentially significant escalation in the standoff between Caracas and Washington, after the United States deployed eight warships to Latin America in what it bills as a war on drug trafficking.

Trump initially announced at the White House that US forces had “shot out a boat… a drug carrying boat, lots of drugs in that boat” without giving details.

The Republican later posted a statement about the strike o

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