4 alleged narcoterrorists killed in boat strike in the eastern Pacific: Officials

U.S. Southern Command announced that four men had been killed Wednesday in the latest strike against an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific.

The “lethal kinetic strike” was directed by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth as part of Operation Southern Spear, officials said in a post on X.

Officials said the vessel was “operated by a Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters.”

“Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. A total of four male narco-terrorists were killed, and no U.S. military forces were harmed,” the post reads.

On Monday, eight alleged “narco-terrorists” were also killed in U.S. strikes on three suspected drug vessels in the eastern Pacific.

The new strikes come amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela and increased scrutiny of a so-called double tap strike by the U.S. on Sept. 2 that killed the survivors of an initial strike on an alleged drug boat.

The latest attack brings the total number of known strikes by U.S. forces in the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean to 26; they have killed at least 98 people.

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