U.S. Southern Command mentioned it focused three vessels touring in a convoy in undisclosed worldwide waters — leaving “narco-terrorists” as survivors after they jumped overboard, in response to a social media assertion.
The strikes occurred on Dec. 30, according to the post on X.
“Three narco-terrorists aboard the primary vessel had been killed within the first engagement,” the assertion mentioned. “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 mentioned it focused three vessels touring in a convoy in undisclosed worldwide waters.
US Southern Command
At the least six individuals survived the strikes, which happened within the Jap Pacific, in response to 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 mentioned.
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 mentioned, “on December thirtieth, the U.S. Coast Guard was notified by the Division of Conflict 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 supply additional search protection,” it mentioned.
There have now been 33 strikes — and 110 individuals killed — within the U.S. navy marketing campaign within the Caribbean and Jap Pacific focusing on alleged drug traffickers since September.
Within the assertion, the navy officers mentioned the vessels focused within the Dec. 30 strikes had been operated by designated terrorist organizations and that intelligence confirmed the vessel had been “had been transiting alongside recognized narco-trafficking routes and had transferred narcotics between the three vessels previous to the strikes.”
The U.S. marketing campaign focusing 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 had been killed in a follow-up series of strikes.
In one other assault within the Caribbean in October, two survivors of a strike on a submarine suspected of carrying medication had been later returned to the countries of origin — Ecuador and Colombia — to be detained and prosecuted, President Donald Trump mentioned.
On October 27, a mariner, now presumed lifeless, additionally survived U.S. strikes.
