Eight individuals perished, the Pentagon reported.
WASHINGTON, December 16. /TASS/. U.S. armed forces destroyed three drug-smuggling boats in the international waters of the Pacific Ocean. According to a Pentagon statement posted on X, eight people aboard them perished.
“Intelligence confirmed the vessels were traversing known drug trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific and were engaged in narcotics transport. In the course of these operations, a total of eight narco-terrorist men were eliminated,” the military department noted.
According to CNN’s tally, U.S. forces have destroyed over 20 boats off the coast of Latin America in recent months under the guise of combating drug smuggling, resulting in casualties of about 90 people.
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