Two killed in US strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific

The US military carried out a new deadly attack on a ship accused of drug smuggling in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

U.S. Southern Command said on social media that the boat was “proceeding along known drug smuggling routes in the Eastern Pacific and was involved in drug smuggling operations.”

It was stated that two people died in the attack. A video linked to the post shows a boat moving through the water before bursting into flames.

The strike was announced just hours after US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that “some of the leading cartel drug traffickers” in the region have decided to cease all narcotics operations indefinitely due to recent (highly effective) kinetic attacks in the Caribbean.

Last week, the army announced that this figure was up to 126 people, including those who were thought to have died after being lost at sea.

That figure includes 116 people killed instantly in at least 36 attacks in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean since early September, U.S. Southern Command said.

Ten other people are believed to have died after searchers were unable to locate them after the attack.

Meanwhile, the families of two Trinidadian citizens killed in the Trump administration boat attack in October filed a lawsuit against the federal government last week, calling the attack a war crime and part of an “unprecedented and patently illegal U.S. military campaign.”

The case is believed to be the first wrongful death case arising from the campaign and will test the legal justification for the attacks, which many experts say were a brazen violation of the laws of armed conflict.

President Donald Trump said the United States was in an “armed conflict” with cartels in Latin America and justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stop the flow of drugs.

But his administration has offered little evidence to support his claims that he killed “narco-terrorists.”