India, Sept. 3 -- President Donald Trump has announced that 11 people on board a drug-laden vessel linked to the Venezuelan cartel Tren de Aragua were killed in a U.S. military strike.

Trump disclosed this in a statement posted on his social media platform Truth Social Tuesday.

"Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere."

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