4 Killed in Latest US Military Strike on Suspected Drug Trafficking Boat

Since Saturday, there have been strikes against three alleged terrorist vessels resulting in 11 deaths overall.

A still from a video footage shared by SOUTHCOM of a narco-terrorist boat transiting in the Eastern Pacific on April 14. SOUTHCOM via X

The U.S. military said it struck a drug trafficking boat of a terrorist organization in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of four people accused as narco-traffickers.

“On April 14, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said in a post on X.