WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces struck a vessel Wednesday in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs.
No U.S. personnel were harmed, the U.S. Southern Command said in a social media post.
The Southern Command described the attack Wednesday as a “lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization.” It said the vessel was transiting along “known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific.
The announcement did not name the organization or the three men killed in the strike or offer a more precise location. Nor did it provide evidence of the men’s ties to drug trafficking.
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