US strike on Pacific boat killed 3 as senators press Pentagon
What's new: The deaths bring the toll from the campaign against alleged “narcoterrorists” to at least 211 since September.
A U.S. military strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific killed three men, the latest deadly action in the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged drug traffickers at sea. U.S. Southern Command said the boat was moving along known smuggling routes and was operated by “Designated Terrorist Organizations,” but it did not name the groups or provide evidence for the claim. NPR reported the latest attack pushed the death toll from the strikes to at least 211 since early September. Democratic senators have demanded unedited video of the operations, while legal scholars and rights groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International argue the attacks may amount to unlawful extrajudicial killings.