US EditionUS military says 2 strikes on alleged drug boats kill 5 in eastern Pacific
The U.S. military has killed five on two alleged drug smuggling boats, raising the total deaths in the campaign to at least 104 since September, officials said.
- On Thursday, the U.S. military conducted two strikes on vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing five people and targeting boats smuggling drugs, U.S. Southern Command said.
- U.S. Southern Command said intelligence assessments showed the vessels were transiting known narco‑trafficking routes, though it did not provide evidence.
- Videos posted show each boat speeding through water before being struck by an explosion, and the military said three people in one vessel and two in the other were killed.
- Those attacks raise the campaign's tally to 28 known boat strikes and at least 104 people killed, according to the Trump administration, while lawmakers increase scrutiny.
- In early September, a follow-up strike killed two survivors clinging to wreckage, U.S. Southern Command said.
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This time, two barges were sunk in the Pacific Ocean, their entire crews lost.
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republicain-lorrain.frU.S. drug trafficking strikes in the Pacific are almost daily and have already killed more than 100 people since September.
The U.S. Southern Command announced on Thursday that President Donald Trump's administration carried out two new lethal attacks on drug trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific, adding that five alleged narcoterrorists were neutralized and that no member of the U.S. military force was injured during the operation. While the command stressed that narco-lanches would be part of narco-terrorist groups, it did not specify which ones they would bel…
Once again, the US military wants to have sunk smuggler boats by air attack. Even if international waters are mentioned: From an expert point of view, military operations violate international law.
The U.S. military has claimed to have attacked two other alleged smuggler boats in the Pacific.
With the latest attack, a total of 104 people have been killed by the military in the US effort against drug traffickers in Latin America, without the US having provided evidence that those killed are what the Americans describe as "narco-terrorists."
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