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US military kills two more people in strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific
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US military kills two more people in strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific

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The US military announced on Friday that it killed two people in an attack on a boat in the eastern Pacific, part of a series of deadly strikes on vessels in recent months which it claims are targeting “narco-trafficking” operations. The US Southern Command declared in a social media post on X that Gen Francis L Donovan directed Joint Task Force Southern Spear, the counter-narcotics unit that operates in the region, to carry out a lethal strike. The US military posted a video, which it labeled unclassified, showing a small boat being destroyed in an explosion. The US campaign targeting boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific has killed at least 178 people since last September, but there is not detailed evidence behind military officials’ claims that the vessels targeted are involved in drug trafficking.…

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