US kills 4 alleged drug smugglers on boat in Caribbean, bringing total to 227 in 68 strikes

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Southern Command announced another strike on "narco-terrorists," killing four in the Caribbean, bringing the roughly one-year totals to at least 227 dead among the 68 reported strikes, including back-to-back days after months of calm in the area.

"On August 25, under Gen.

Donovan’s direction, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean," SOUTHCOM wrote in a Tuesday night X post.

"Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking.

The operation killed four narco-terrorists." Since September, President Donald Trump's administration has been striking suspected cartel vessels in the Atlantic and Pacific that it accuses of transporting narcotics.

US KILLS TWO 'NARCO-TERRORISTS' IN STRIKE 2 MONTHS SINCE LAST ANNOUNCED ANTI-'NARCO-TRAFFICKING' ATTACK "Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere continues executing precise, lethal operations against the cartels," SOUTHCOM Commander Gen.

Francis L.

Donovan said in a statement quoted in the X post.

"We will hunt, disrupt, and defeat these narco-terrorist networks.

"SOUTHCOM is resolved to neutralizing cartel terror and violence throughout the region and into the U.S. homeland." The U.S. military said Monday two were killed in a strike it launched on a vessel in the Eastern Pacific over the weekend.

That strike marked the first in more than two months.

US EYES IRAN FAST BOATS WITH ‘KILL’ TACTICS TESTED IN VENEZUELA DRUG-BOAT STRIKES The video posted on X showed an image of what appeared to be a moving boat followed by a flash.

The Associated Press reports that this makes at least 227 total deaths from such strikes.