A strike from the US military on a boat in the Caribbean has killed four people.
The US Southern Command made the announcement on X on Sunday morning.
The post said that four “narco-terrorists” were killed.
“On September 19, under the direction of (US Southern Command), Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean.
“Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel’s active involvement in narco-trafficking.
“The operation killed four narco-terrorists.”
The statement was accompanied by a video of the strike.
It comes 10 days after another strike in the Caribbean killed three people.
Since the Trump administration’s crackdown on “narco-terrorists” started last year, US strikes on vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific have killed more than 220 people.
Rights groups have labelled the attacks as “extrajudicial killings”
- with Reuters.
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