Two men were killed in U.S. military strike targeting a boat suspected of carrying drugs in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
U.S. Southern Command said that the attack, "on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations", was carried out by Joint Task Force Southern Spear at the direction of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, on Monday.
Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations, the U.S. Southern Command said in a press release. It described the victims as "two male narco-terrorists", but did not specify to which terrorist group they belonged.
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