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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Tiago Rogero South America correspondent

13 men killed by US military boat strikes identified: ‘These were flesh-and-blood people’

A burnt-out boat on a sandy beach feet from the ocean.
The remains of a boat allegedly struck by the US military, in the Alta Guajira region of Colombia. Photograph: Courtesy of CLIP

A five-month investigation has named 13 previously unidentified victims of US attacks on boats allegedly carrying narcotics in a campaign that has killed nearly 200 people in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific.

It is unclear if the US has ever identified any of its 194 victims before attacking them, and the names of just three had previously emerged, after their families launched legal cases against the White House.

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