Three lethal attacks on boats operated by „Designated Terrorist Organisations (DTO) trafficking narcotics“ brings the total number of airstrikes to 13, with 57 people killed
Fourteen people have died after the US launched its latest attacks on boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which it says were transporting illegal drugs to the country.
It brings the total number of dead from 13 airstrikes to 57, amid increasing tensions between the US and the governments of both Colombia and Venezuela.
A 30-second video posted on X by the US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, showed four vessels exploding on Monday on what he said were the orders of US President Donald Trump.
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One of the boats appears to be piled high with packages.
Mr Hegseth, who is with Mr Trump on a tour of Asia, said US forces carried out „three lethal kinetic strikes on four vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organisations (DTO) trafficking narcotics“.
They were identified as drug boats by US intelligence, he said, travelling on „known narco-trafficking routes, and carrying narcotics“.
