US Army Strike on Pacific Drug Boat Kills 2; Survivor Discovered
US Southern Command launched this footage of a strike on Could 8, 2026, that it stated killed 2 folks on a vessel, and left one survivor, within the jap Pacific. (Photograph: X/@Southcom) Two folks have been killed and one survived after the US navy hit a suspected drug-trafficking boat within the jap Pacific on Friday.
Video shared by US Southern Command on social media exhibits a darkish, boat-shaped object adopted by a blast and a column of fireplace over the water. SOUTHCOM stated it instantly contacted the Coast Guard to begin search-and-rescue operations for the survivor.
On Could 8, on the route of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Activity Drive Southern Spear performed a deadly kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting alongside recognized narco-trafficking… pic.twitter.com/YFLQNZufRx
— U.S. Southern Command (@Southcom) Could 9, 2026
The strike got here days after the White Home confirmed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump had accepted a brand new counterterrorism technique making the elimination of drug cartels within the Western Hemisphere the administration’s high precedence.
The Trump administration’s marketing campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters, together with the jap Pacific and the Caribbean Sea, has gone on since early September and killed at the least 193 folks in whole.
The navy has not offered proof that any of the vessels have been carrying medication. The strikes have ramped up once more in latest weeks.
On the similar time, Trump has sought to press regional leaders to work extra carefully with the US to focus on cartels and take navy motion themselves towards drug traffickers and transnational gangs that he says pose an “unacceptable menace” to the hemisphere’s nationwide safety.Critics, in the meantime, have questioned the general legality of the boat strikes.
