The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.

Those who died in the strike were aboard the vessel, and no U.S. forces were harmed, the Republican president said in a social media post.

It's the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean as the Trump administration asserts it's treating alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who must be met with military force.

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