US military says two were killed in strike on suspected drug vessel in Pacific | US military

The US military announced that two more people were killed in a “deadly kinetic attack” on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday.

Pentagon released video of the strikeThe total number of known maritime attacks on suspected drug traffickers since September has risen to 30. death toll At least 107 people, according to US military figures.

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“Intelligence confirmed that the ship traveled through known drug smuggling routes in the Eastern Pacific and was involved in drug smuggling operations,” the military said. “No US military forces were harmed.”

Donald Trump justified attacks on suspected drug traffickers with the false claim that each shipment would lead to the deaths of 25,000 Americans.

weekend president said A supporter on a New York radio show said last week that the U.S. had “disabled a major facility or a major facility… that ships are coming from” in Venezuela; this was an undisclosed strike, if it even took place.

Asked by reporters Monday about those remarks, Trump insisted the attack had happened. “There was a big explosion in the dock area where they loaded drugs onto the boats,” Trump told reporters before the lunch to be held by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida. Trump, the White House and the Pentagon did not provide any further details. “So we hit all the boats and now we hit the area,” the president said, “this is the practice area, this is where they practiced and that’s not around anymore.”