U.S. Military Strikes Another Alleged Drug Boat In Caribbean, Killing 3 | EUROtoday

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. army mentioned Friday that it has carried out one other lethal strike on a vessel accused of trafficking medication within the Caribbean Sea.

U.S. Southern Command mentioned on social media that the boat “was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.” It mentioned the strike killed three folks. A video linked to the put up exhibits a ship shifting by way of the water earlier than exploding in flames.

Friday’s assault raises the demise toll from the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug boats to 133 folks in no less than 38 assaults carried out since early September within the Caribbean Sea and jap Pacific Ocean.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared final week that “some top cartel drug-traffickers” within the area “have decided to cease all narcotics operations INDEFINITELY due to recent (highly effective) kinetic strikes in the Caribbean.” However, Hegseth didn’t present any particulars or info to again up this declare, made in a put up on his private account on social media.

President Donald Trump has mentioned the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with cartels in Latin America and has justified the assaults as a crucial escalation to stem the circulation of medication. But his administration has provided little proof to help its claims of killing “narcoterrorists.”