WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a dock facility along the coast of Venezuela, marking the first known land strike by the Trump administration inside the oil-rich South American country, CNN reported Monday night, citing anonymous sources familiar with the operation.
The strike targeted a remote dock that U.S. officials believed was being used by a Venezuelan gang to store drugs and transfer them onto boats for shipment, the sources said.
No one was present at the site at the time of the strike, and there were no casualties, according to the CNN report.
U.S. President Donald Trump said earlier on Monday that the U.S. knocked out a dock area where alleged drug traffickers loaded the boats up with drugs in Venezuela last week. ■
