WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Saturday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men in the fourth attack this week and putting the total .
U.S. Southern Command announced the strike with its usual language that the vessel was 鈥渆ngaged in narco-trafficking operations鈥� and operated by a designated terrorist organization. It provided no evidence for the allegation.
It’s the latest in a against alleged drug boats traversing the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific.
Video released by the military on social media shows a small vessel floating in the ocean before it’s hit and engulfed in a fireball.
The attack brings the death toll to 205 in a series of U.S. strikes that began in early September, with announced on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The Trump administration has declared that the U.S. is at with Latin American drug cartels, saying they are behind the flow of drugs into American communities.
U.S. Southern Command said in its post on X that the strike came at the direction of Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the top U.S. commander in Latin America.
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