The two survivors of an American military strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries, President Donald Trump said on Saturday (October 18, 2025).

The military rescued the pair after striking a submersible vessel on Thursday, in what was at least the sixth such attack since early September.

“It was my great honour to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narco-trafficking transit route,” Mr. Trump said in a social media post. “U.S. Intelligence confirmed this vessel was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal narcotics.”

After Mr. Trump’s announcement, the Pentagon posted on X a brief black-and-white video of the strike. In the cli

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