President Gustavo Petro of Colombia has shared pixelated footage on his social media account said to show bodies washed up on a beach on the country’s Caribbean coast.
The two bodies found in the region of La Guajira were floating in the sea, Petro wrote on X while calling for forensic authorities and officials from Venezuela to identify them. He said they may have been the victims of an airstrike at sea, but did not explicitly name the United States in his post.
A police spokesperson in La Guajira told AFP that the two bodies were discovered on Thursday on a beach used by local fishermen, although the cause of death remains unknown.
The U.S. military said carried out its 22nd strike on suspected drug-running vessels on Thursday, targeting a small boat in the Eastern Pacific and killing four people. The latest military action brought the death toll to at least 86.
In a series of posts, Petro denounced the U.S. campaign in Latin America and the maritime strikes on suspected drug traffickers, which come amid President Donald Trump’s threat of military operations against drug cartels based in Venezuela and Colombia.
This is a developing story. Updates to follow.
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