"Friday's attack raises the death toll from the Trump administration's strikes on alleged drug boats to at least 148 people in at least 43 attacks carried out since early September in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. President Donald Trump has said the U.S. is in "armed conflict" with cartels in Latin America and has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs. But his administration has offered little evidence to support its claims of killing "narcoterrorists.""
"WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military said Friday that it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. U.S. Southern Command said on social media that the boat "was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations." It said the strike killed three people. A video linked to the post shows a boat floating in the water before bursting into flames."
U.S. forces conducted another maritime strike in the Eastern Pacific that killed three people aboard a vessel the military said was engaged in narco-trafficking. A military video shows a boat catching fire after the attack. The action raised the known death toll from the Trump administration's related strikes to at least 148 people in at least 43 attacks since early September in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. President Trump framed the campaign as an "armed conflict" with cartels to stem drug flows, while critics cited limited evidence, legal questions, and concerns that fentanyl typically moves overland from Mexico. Revelations that survivors of an earlier attack were killed in a follow-up strike intensified criticism, with Republican officials defending the operations and Democratic lawmakers and legal experts calling the killings murder or potential war crimes.
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