{"id":217534,"date":"2025-10-16T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217534\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:59:09","slug":"us-airstrike-near-venezuela-may-have-killed-two-trinidad-citizens-police-say-trinidad-and-tobago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217534\/","title":{"rendered":"US airstrike near Venezuela may have killed two Trinidad citizens, police say | Trinidad and Tobago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in Trinidad and Tobago<\/a> are investigating whether two citizens were among six people killed in a US strike on a boat allegedly transporting drugs from Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Without providing evidence, Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the strike killed six \u201cnarcoterrorists\u201d in international waters, allegedly transporting drugs from Venezuela<\/a> to the United States.<\/p>\n

Trinidadian police said residents of the village of Las Cuevas reported that the two citizens were on the sunken vessel, but could not confirm their deaths.<\/p>\n

At least 27 people have been killed so far in such attacks off the coast of Venezuela, which the Trump administration<\/a> says are necessary to protect the United States from smuggled narcotics from Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Lenore Burnley, mother of 26-year-old Trinidadian fisherman Chad Joseph, told AFP by phone that people her family know in Venezuela \u201ctold them he was on the boat\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to maritime law, if you see a boat, you are supposed to stop the boat and intercept it, not just blow it up. That\u2019s our Trinidadian maritime law and I think every fisherman and every human knows that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Burnley said her son was planning to return to Trinidad and Tobago<\/a> after spending three months with family in Venezuela, just 6.8 miles (11km) away.<\/p>\n

Local media reported another Trinidadian victim from Las Cuevas, known as Samaroo to locals.<\/p>\n

In response to US military buildup in the region, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>, ordered large-scale military exercises on Wednesday and said he was mobilizing the military, police and a civilian militia<\/a> to defend his country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Trinidad and Tobago are investigating whether two citizens were among six people killed in a US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-217534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}