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At least 14 killed in another US attack on four suspected narco-boats

The operation brings the death toll in Washington’s counter-narcotics campaign at sea to at least 57.

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U.S. forces killed 14 people in strikes on four suspected narco boats in the Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed.

AFP noted that the operation raises the death toll in Washington’s counter-narcotics campaign at sea to at least 57.

"A total of 14 narco-terrorists were killed (...) with one survivor. All strikes were in international waters with no U.S. forces harmed," Hegseth said in a post on X about the strikes conducted the previous day.

Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out three lethal kinetic strikes on four vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO) trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific.

The four vessels were known by our intelligence… pic.twitter.com/UhoFlZ3jPG

The four vessels were “known by our intelligence apparatus, transiting along known narco-trafficking routes, and carrying narcotics," Hegseth added.

The Pentagon chief’s release included a video of the attacks: the first targeted two boats that appeared moored together, while the other two struck vessels sailing at full speed in open waters.

One survivor

Hegseth said the U.S. Southern Command immediately launched a search for the sole survivor of the attacks and that Mexican authorities “accepted the case and assumed responsibility for coordinating the rescue.”

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