Two shirtless people were clinging onto the remains of a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, hoping to flip the wreckage after a U.S. military strike capsized their boat when a second missile struck, officially killing all 11 people on board the alleged drug-carrying vessel.
Ahead of what’s now known as the “double-tap strike” on September 2 — a controversial attack that has sparked allegations of “war crimes” —Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered U.S. forces “to kill the passengers, sink the boat and destroy the drugs,” three people familiar with the operation told the Washington Post.
