At least 40 people, including military personnel and civilians, were killed in the US attack on Venezuela early Saturday, a senior Venezuelan official told The New York Times while describing preliminary reports.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump told Fox News on Saturday that no American troops had been killed. He suggested, however, that some service members had been injured.
Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said later in the day at a news conference at Mar-a-Lago with Trump that US helicopters moving to extract President Nicolás Maduro and his wife had come under fire.
He said that one helicopter had been hit but “remained flyable,” and that all US aircraft “came home.”
