Washington: US forces have struck another vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people accused of trafficking drugs, the Department of Defence said Monday, in the first attack announced in about two months.
The death toll in the nearly yearlong US campaign of bombing boats allegedly
trafficking drugs now exceeds 210 after more than 60 strikes off Latin America's Caribbean coast and in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Forces "executed a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narcotrafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific," US Southern Command said on social media. As with most of the military's statements on strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, the Pentagon did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs.
It is the first strike since powerful back-to-back June 24 earthquakes that killed thousands of people.