U.S. Strike Kills 3 in Eastern Pacific as Death Toll Tops 200
The strike was the third this week and lifted the total death toll from the months-long campaign to 202, U.S. officials said.
- On Friday, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing three men at the direction of Southern Command commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan.
- President Donald Trump's administration declared the U.S. is at armed conflict with Latin American drug cartels, citing their role in the flow of drugs into American communities.
- This incident marks the third strike this week, pushing the total death toll to 202 people since the campaign began in early September, with intelligence confirming the vessel was transiting along known routes.
- Separately, Donovan met with Cuban military leaders on Friday near the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, while the military released color footage of the attack for the first time.
- While the military describes the vessels as operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations and 'engaged in narco-trafficking operations,' Reuters could not immediately verify the information regarding the strike.
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U.S. SOUTHCOM says it killed 'three male narco-terrorists' in Eastern Pacific drug boat strike
"Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," it says.
For the third time this week, the US military attacked a suspected drug boat. Three people on board were killed in the attack.
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elcorreogallego.esThe U.S. Southern Command reported this Friday that a joint military force carried out a lethal attack on a vessel linked to organizations classified by Washington as terrorists, killing the three crew members of the ship.
The US Army announced on Friday a new attack on the Pacific Ocean, part of a Trump administration military campaign against suspected drug trafficking ships, according to AFP, quoted by News.ro. "The ship was travelling on a known drug trafficking route in the East Pacific and was engaged in drug trafficking operations, ...
The US military said it carried out an attack on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday. Three men were killed in the US attack on a boat accused of being involved in drug smuggling.
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