US EditionStrikes on alleged drug boats kill 5, leave 1 survivor in eastern Pacific, US military says
The military said the boats were on known smuggling routes and that the Coast Guard was searching for one survivor after the second strike.
- The U.S. military reported killing five people on boats allegedly trafficking drugs, raising the total death toll to at least 168.
- Strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific began last September.
- Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted the strikes under Gen. Francis L. Donovan's direction on April 11.
- U.S. Southern Command notified the U.S. Coast Guard to activate search-and-rescue for the sole survivor.
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In air raids on two suspected drug boats in the eastern Pacific, the U.S. military killed five people.
The United States claims to have destroyed two ships in the eastern Pacific this weekend suspected of transporting drugs and to have killed five.
Strikes on alleged drug boats kill 5, leave 1 survivor in eastern Pacific, U.S. military says
The U.S. military said Sunday that it blew up two boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of five people and leaving one survivor, as the Trump administration pursues its campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America while preparing a naval blockade of Iranian ports.
At least 168 people have been killed since September 2025 and the start of the United States military campaign against suspected drug traffickers in Pacific and Caribbean waters.
The US military killed five people in a Saturday attack on two boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the US Southern Command (Southcom) said on Sunday. It added that one person survived the attack, foreign news agencies reported.
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