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Strikes on 3 more alleged drug boats kill 11 people, Pentagon says
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The series of strikes brought the death toll to at least 145 people since the administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in small vessels since early September.
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The U.S. military says it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean Sea US military strikes another
The US military conducted a strike against another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean on Friday, killing three people, according to US Southern Command.
U.S. Southern Command announced that the military launched strikes on three alleged drug smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean on Monday, killing 11 people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Tuesday that it carried out strikes on three boats accused of smuggling drugs in Latin American waters, killing 11
(CNN) — The US military struck three alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean on Monday night, killing all 11 people on board, US Southern Command said Tuesday.
The series of strikes conducted Monday brought the death toll to at least 145 people since the administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in small vessels since early September.
U.S. forces blew up three boats overnight, killing 11 men in strikes in both the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, the military announced today. The strikes raised the death toll in the U.S. campaign against people it accuses of drug smuggling at sea to at least 144.
Eleven men were killed on Monday in three kinetic strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, according to U.S. Southern Command.
The series of strikes brought the death toll to at least 145 people since the administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in small vessels since early September.
U.S. strikes on alleged narcotrafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean left at least 11 people dead, according to U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). The strikes were carried out late Monday at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L.
