The United States has killed two people in another strike on a vessel in the Pacific, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said, bringing to at least 67 the number of people killed in US attacks on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific since early September.
In a post on social media late on Tuesday, Hegseth alleged that the latest vessel attacked was involved in “illicit narcotics smuggling”, though legal experts have said that such attacks amount to extrajudicial killings, even if those targeted are suspected of drug trafficking.
Describing the vessel as “transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics”, Hegseth said US forces attacked it in “international waters in the Eastern Pacific” on the orders of US President Donald Trump.
GR
FR
DE
ES
IT
RU
EU
The United States on Tuesday destructed a boat allegedly used to carry drugs and killed two people on board in the international waters of the Pacific Ocean, Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth said on X.
ReplyDelete"Today, at the direction of President [Donald] Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization," he said.