The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean has been released by prosecutors in Ecuador.

The U.S. military conducted a lethal strike in international waters against a suspected drug vessel, killing three alleged terrorists, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said.

The U.S. military carried out a new strike against a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean, and in what is believed to be the first such case, there were survivors among the crew, a U.S. official told Reuters.

The strike of 3,200 machinists comes as the US government is demanding defense contractors rapidly expand production for war with China.

U.S. military drone strike destroyed a drug-smuggling submersible in the Caribbean Thursday, leaving 2 to 3 survivors in the water, a U.S. official tells Fox News.

U.S. strikes against Venezuela in international waters are a dangerous escalation and amount to "extrajudicial executions," a group of independent United Nations experts said on Tuesday.

Trump has moved significant U.S. military assets, including eight warships, about 10,000 troops, a nuclear-power submarine and fighter jets, to the southern Caribbean, close to Venezuela. Earlier this week, the president confirmed he authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to carry out covert operations in Venezuela.

Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.N. is condemning a recent U.S. strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people, calling it “a new set of extrajudicial executions.”