Another strike on alleged drug boat kills 3 in eastern Pacific

The U.S. military killed three “narco-terrorists” in a strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Sunday, U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) claimed on social media. 

In a video posted on social platform X, the command showed a boat moving across the water for several seconds before it exploded into flames. Southcom repeated previous statements in declaring the vessel was “transiting along known narco-trafficking routes.”

“Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” according to the post. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.”

The attack, directed by Southcom commander Gen. Francis Donovan, is the latest such strike as part of the........

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