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US strike on alleged drug boat kills three in eastern Pacific

A person in military camouflage looks through mounted binoculars toward a coastal landscape with turquoise water
Gen Francis Donovan, head of US Southern Command, visits a location given as Guantánamo, Cuba, on Friday. Photograph: US Southern Command/Reuters

The US military said on Saturday it had carried out a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific killing three men, the second strike in as many days.

Officials with the US Southern Command said in a post on X that intelligence had confirmed that the vessel was transiting along “narco-trafficking” routes in the eastern Pacific and engaged in “narco-trafficking” operations.

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