‘25,000 Americans would’ve died: Trump releases video of US strikes against ‘drug-carrying vessel’ in Caribbean, 2 survivors repatriated | World News
Trump said that at least 25,000 Americans “would have died” if the alleged drug carrying submarine was allowed to come on the US’ shore. (Photo: X/ @WhiteHouse)
The United States has said that it is releasing the two survivors of an American military strike on a suspected “drug-carrying vessel” in the Caribbean to their home countries in Ecuador and Colombia as President Donald Trump said it was his “great honor” to destroy the drug-carrying submarine with “four known narcoterrors on board”.
The US military rescued the pair after two suspected “narco terrors” were killed in the strike at the submersible vessel on Thursday, in what was at least the sixth such strike in the Caribbean the US forces since September. The US president posted footage of Thursday’s operation in the Caribbean, which was part of the military’s campaign to target boats transporting drugs to America.
📹 DESTROYED: Confirmed DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE navigating towards the United States on a well-known narcotrafficking transit route.”Under my watch, the United States of America will not tolerate narcoterrors trafficking illegal drugs, land or sea.” – President Trump pic.twitter.com/N4TAkgPHXN— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 18, 2025
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, “It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route.” He added, “US Intelligence confirmed this vessel was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal narcotics.”
pic.twitter.com/3oRyqbFY0X— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 18, 2025
Trump said that at least 25,000 Americans “would have died” if the alleged drug carrying submarine was allowed to come on the US’ shore. The Republican leader informed that out of the four suspected terrors, two were killed and the two surviving were being returned to their countries of origin, Ecuador and Colombia, for detention and prosecution.
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In a post on X, Colombian President Gustavo Petro confirmed that the Colombian man who was detained aboard the vessel which the American authorities termed as “narco submarine” was home. Petro wrote, “We are glad he is alive, and he will be prosecuted according to the law.”
The death toll in the US military’s actions in the Caribbean against the alleged drug carrying vessels in the region has reached 29. The US president has justified the strikes carried out the US military, arguing that America is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels.
(with inputs from AP)
