US forces have attacked a drug-trafficking vessel off the coast of the Dominican Republic, a local law enforcement agency reported, quoted by "Agence France-Presse" and NOVA.
The head of the Dominican Anti-Drug Directorate, Carlos Devers, announced the news at a joint press conference with a spokesman for the US embassy and added that the attack was the same strike that US President Donald Trump announced on Friday, without specifying the location of the strike.
The latest armed action against a vessel reported to be transporting drugs marks an intensification of US military operations in the Caribbean region, following Trump's order to increase the US military presence there as part of an operation to combat drug trafficking, AFP noted.
"This is a US air strike against a narco-terrorist motorboat carrying about 1,000 kilograms of cocaine 80 nautical miles from the island of Beata" in the southeastern Dominican Republic, Devers said.
On Friday, Trump released a video he said showed three "narco-terrorists" on a ship carrying drugs to the United States being killed in a US strike.
Washington has deployed warships and a nuclear submarine to the Caribbean, officially as part of an operation to combat drug trafficking.
Washington accuses Venezuela and its President Nicolas Maduro of organizing the trafficking and sending the ships with drugs. Caracas rejects the accusations and describes the deployment of US forces in the region as an "imperialist plan" to overthrow the Venezuelan regime and seize its natural resources. Caracas has the world's largest oil reserves.