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Relatives killed in attacks off the coast of Venezuela/ Two families file lawsuit against the US government

2026-01-27 21:36:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Relatives killed in attacks off the coast of Venezuela/ Two families file

The families of two Trinidadian men killed in a US attack on a suspected drug smuggling ship have filed a lawsuit against the US government.

Family lawyers have filed the lawsuit in federal court in Boston on behalf of the relatives of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo. The pair were among six men killed off the coast of Venezuela on October 14.

The US has struck at least 36 ships in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific since September, killing more than 120 people. The Trump administration has said it is targeting "narco-terrorists" who transport drugs that kill Americans.

The US has positioned its operations as a non-international armed conflict with suspected traffickers, but legal experts say they may be in violation of the laws governing such conflict.

The families' lawsuit was filed Tuesday under the High Seas Deaths Act, which allows family members to file wrongful death lawsuits on the high seas and is a statute that allows foreign citizens to sue in U.S. courts for violations of international law.

The case was brought by Joseph's mother and Samaroo's sister, who say the two men worked fishing and farming in Venezuela and were returning to Trinidad and Tobago when their boat was hit.

Joseph's mother, Sallycar Korasingh, added that if the US government believed her son had done something wrong, it should have arrested, charged and detained him, not killed him.

The lawsuit argues that the killings should be considered wrongful deaths because the men were not participating in military hostilities against the US. /CNA





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