US Military Carries Out Second Strike
A follow-up strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean killed the survivors. Total death toll: 11.
Jalen Park
The US military carried out a second strike, killing survivors on a suspected drug boat that had already been attacked. The US military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board. While the first strike appeared to disable the boat and cause deaths, the military assessed that there were survivors, according to the sources. The second attack killed the remaining crew on board, bringing the total death toll to 11, and sank the ship. Before the operation, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the military to ensure the strike killed everyone on board, but it's not clear whether he knew there were survivors before the second strike, one of the sources said.
However, Trump and Hegseth insist they didn't know of a follow-up strike that killed survivors on a suspected drug boat, insisting they weren't aware of what the military had done after the first strike didn't kill everyone on board. "I didn't know about the second strike. I didn't know anything about the people," he said. "I wasn't involved, and I knew they took out a boat, but I would say this, they had a strike."
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