US strike on alleged drug boat in Pacific kills three

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The United States military has attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three people, as the Trump administration wages a monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America. The latest attack on Thursday brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the US military to at least 211 since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in early September. As with most of the military’s statements on strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, US Southern Command said it targeted the alleged drug traffickers along…

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