President Trump has released video of a further US airstrike on a boat believed to have been transporting drugs to America through international waters.Trump said “three male narcoterrorists” were killed in the attack, which is at least the third on vessels in the Caribbean region this month.He did not give any specific details of where or when the strike took place or name any terrorist group.TRUTH SOCIAL/AFP/GETTY IMAGESTwo previous attacks by US forces targeted drug smugglers from Venezuela, according to the Trump administration. Eleven people allegedly belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang were killed on board a speedboat in the southern Caribbean on September 2 and three people died in an attack on a boat on September 15.Announcing the latest strike on his Truth Social platform on Friday night, Trump said: “On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans. The strike killed three male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel, which was in international waters. No US forces were harmed in this strike.“STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!”The latest strike came after warnings from Trump and his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, that the US would continue to target drug smugglers in the region.Trump has claimed that the Tren de Aragua gang operates “under the control” of President Maduro of Venezuela, while Hegseth described Maduro as “effectively a kingpin of a narcostate”.President MaduroRONALD PENA/EPAMaduro, who denies any criminal connections, accused the US of seeking “regime change through military threat” and has vowed to resist any attack.Trump did not rule out using US forces to remove Maduro from power when asked about the situation last week, telling reporters: “We’ll see what happens. It’s not an option or a non-option.”• Roger Boyes: Trump’s spied a just war: taking out MaduroHis strategy has been welcomed by María Corina Machado, the leader of Venezuela’s opposition, who is in hiding because of Maduro’s brutal crackdown on protests against his rule.“I think it is the right thing to do,” she told The Times. “It’s courageous. It’s visionary.” While some have claimed that the US airstrikes amount to “extrajudicial murder”, Machado said: “I’m in favour of the US dismantling this criminal structure”.