The United States took survivors into custody after its military struck a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean — the first attack that anyone escaped alive since President Donald Trump began launching deadly attacks in the region last month, a defence official and another person familiar with the matter said on Friday (October 17, 2025).

Mr. Trump later confirmed the attack.

“We attacked a submarine, and that was a drug-carrying submarine built specifically for the transportation of massi

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