Alleged drug traffickers jump overboard after strike on boat convoy kills three, US says

Alleged drug traffickers jump overboard after strike on boat convoy kills three, US says


Multiple alleged drug traffickers jumped overboard and into the ocean after a Department of War strike on a suspected drug vessel convoy on Tuesday.

U.S. Southern Command announced Wednesday three strikes against three “narco-trafficking vessels” that were traveling together. The command said the vessels were in international waters along known drug routes. They also said War Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the strikes.

“On Dec. 30, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted kinetic strikes against three narco-trafficking vessels traveling as a convoy,” SOUTHCOM wrote on X.

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“These vessels were operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and had transferred narcotics between the three vessels prior to the strikes,” it

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