US says it killed five people in strike on alleged drug boat
- Latest strike brings death toll of campaign decried as extrajudicial killings to 243 people since September 2025.
- The United States military has said that it has killed five people in a strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific, continuing a campaign condemned by legal scholars and rights groups as extrajudicial killings.
- US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, said on Tuesday that five people were killed in the strike.
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- Latest strike brings death toll of campaign decried as extrajudicial killings to 243 people since September 2025.
- The United States military has said that it has killed five people in a strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific, continuing a campaign condemned by legal scholars and rights groups as extrajudicial killings.
- US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, said on Tuesday that five people were killed in the strike.
Sources: Al Jazeera