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- Southern Command XSearch for survivors after US strikes on alleged drug boatsUS military announces two separate strikes on boats it claims were transporting drugs in the PacificThe US Coast Guard was searching for survivors of a US military strike against a convoy of suspected drug vessels in the Pacific Ocean, officials said on Wednesday. In a statement, the US military’s Southern Command said the military had carried out a strike against three vessels. Hegseth gives defiant speech defending ‘drug boat’ strikes amid scrutinyRead more“Three narco-terrorists aboard the first vessel were killed in the first engagement.
- The remaining narco-terrorists abandoned the other two vessels, jumping overboard and distancing themselves before follow-on engagements sank their respective vessels,” Southern Command posted. Southern Command said later on Wednesday that it had carried out a separate strike on two vessels.
- It did not indicate where those strikes were carried out but said five people were killed as a result. Donald Trump’s administration has carried out more than 30 strikes against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific since September in a campaign that has killed at least 110 people. A US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said eight people had abandoned their vessels, as a result of the strikes on the convoy of vessels. The Coast Guard told Reuters it had deployed a C-130 aircraft to look for survivors and was working with vessels in the area. This is not the first time there have been survivors of a US strike under the Trump administration.
- In October, two survivors were repatriated to their home countries after surviving a US military strike. Later that month, Mexican authorities launched a search and rescue effort after another US strike left a survivor.
