Trinidad citizens believed killed in US airstrike off Venezuela coast identified

Family members and neighbours have identified two men from Trinidad and Tobago who are believed to be among six people killed in a US airstrike on a boat allegedly transporting drugs from Venezuela.

Without providing evidence, Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the strike in international waters had killed six “narcoterrorists” and claimed that “intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics” and it was “associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks”.

Trinidad police said they were still confirming whether Trinidadians were among the dead, but residents of the north coast fishing village of Las Cuevas told the Guardian that two locals, Chad “Charpo” Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, were on the sunken vessel.