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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Mackey and agencies

US military says two were killed in strike on suspected drug vessel in Pacific

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Pete Hegseth speaks as Donald Trump looks on at the president’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on 22 December. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

The US military announced the killing of another two men in “a lethal kinetic strike” on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday.

The Pentagon released video of the strike, which brings the total number of known naval attacks on suspected drug smugglers to 30 since September, and raises the death toll to at least 107 people, according to US military figures.

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