2 Killed in US Strike on Drug Boat in Pacific Ocean Attack

This marks the 30th strike on a vessel U.S. officials said was trafficking drugs in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean since Sept. 2

Footage of a U.S. forces strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Dec. 29, 2025. (Screenshot/ U.S. Southern Command).

Two individuals were killed on Dec. 29 in the latest U.S. military attack on a drug boat, United States Southern Command announced on X.

“At the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by [a] Designation Terrorist Organization in international waters,” the announcement read.