India, Sept. 20 -- United States President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) announced that a strike was conducted on a vessel which he claimed was carrying illegal drugs by US the forces, on his orders.

The strike, he said, was conducted in the US Southern Command's area of responsibility and is a fresh one in a streak of such operations by the United States.

Trump claimed that the vessel was affiliated with a "designated terrorist organization", but did not name which one and said that intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illegal drugs and was headed to the United States via a 'known narcotrafficking passage'. It was also not revealed where the vessel was coming from.

Three people were killed in the strike, whom the ...