US attacks killed 11 people on three alleged drug-smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, the US military said.

The US had killed more than 140 people since it started targeting such boats in early September. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The U.S. military said Tuesday that it carried out strikes on three boats accused of smuggling drugs in Latin American waters, killing 11 people in one of the deadliest days of the Trump administration's monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers. The series of strikes conducted Monday brought the death toll to…

The strikes took place Monday in the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. US Southern Command said all those killed were suspected traffickers and that no American personnel were injured.

U.S. Southern Command announced that the military launched strikes on three alleged drug smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean on Monday, killing 11 people. "Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations," Southern Command said Tuesday in a post to X. The strikes are the latest in a series of controversial military operations that have alarmed and frustrated congressional critics of the administration, although lawmakers have opted to allow the strikes to continue without prior congressional approval. In the latest announcement, U.S. Southern Command alleged the three boats were "operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations." The post referred to those killed as "male narco-terrorists," saying that eight people were killed on two boats in the eastern Pacific and three were killed on a boat in the Caribbean. No U.S. troops were harmed, the post said. The post also said the strikes were conducted at the…

Four people died on the first vessel in the Eastern Pacific, with four on another in the Eastern Pacific and three on a third vessel in the Caribbean