U.S. Southern Command stated it focused three vessels touring in a convoy in undisclosed worldwide waters — leaving “narco-terrorists” as survivors after they jumped overboard, in keeping with a social media assertion.
The strikes occurred on Dec. 30, in keeping with the submit on X.
“Three narco-terrorists aboard the primary vessel have been killed within the first engagement,” the assertion stated. “The remaining narco-terrorists deserted the opposite two vessels, leaping overboard and distancing themselves earlier than follow-on engagements sank their respective vessels.”
U.S. Southern Command stated it focused three vessels touring in a convoy in undisclosed worldwide waters.
US Southern Command
At the very least six folks survived the strikes, which came about within the Japanese Pacific, in keeping with a U.S. official.
The U.S. Coast Guard was notified to start looking for the survivors in a search and rescue operation, the assertion stated.
The US Coast Guard confirmed {that a} search-and-rescue operation was underway, and that Coat Guard C-130 plane had been deployed for the operation. The Coast Guard has put out a sign to different mariners for the survivors in misery.
In a press release shared with ABC Information, the Coast Guard stated, “on December thirtieth, the U.S. Coast Guard was notified by the Division of Battle of mariners in misery within the Pacific Ocean.”
“The U.S. Coast Guard is coordinating search and rescue operations with vessels within the space, and a Coast Guard C-130 plane is en route to offer additional search protection,” it stated.
There have now been 33 strikes — and 110 folks killed — within the U.S. navy marketing campaign within the Caribbean and Japanese Pacific concentrating on alleged drug traffickers since September.
Within the assertion, the navy officers stated the vessels focused within the Dec. 30 strikes have been operated by designated terrorist organizations and that intelligence confirmed the vessel have been “have been transiting alongside identified narco-trafficking routes and had transferred narcotics between the three vessels previous to the strikes.”
The U.S. marketing campaign concentrating on alleged boat strikes got here underneath scrutiny final month after the Trump administration acknowledged survivors of an preliminary collection of strikes on an alleged drug vessel on Sept. 2 have been killed in a follow-up collection of strikes.
In one other assault within the Caribbean in October, two survivors of a strike on a submarine suspected of carrying medication have been later returned to the international locations of origin — Ecuador and Colombia — to be detained and prosecuted, President Donald Trump stated.
On October 27, a mariner, now presumed lifeless, additionally survived U.S. strikes.
