US says it interdicted and boarded vessel defying Trump's quarantine
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E-mailFeb 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Defense conducted a maritime interdiction and boarding of the vessel Veronica III, which tried to defy President Donald Trump’s quarantine, the department said on Sunday.
"Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding of the Veronica III without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility," it said in a post on X.
"We tracked it from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, closed the distance, and shut it down," it added.
(Reporting by Preetika Parashuraman in Bengaluru; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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