Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The United States attacked a boat in the eastern Pacific on Wednesday, killing three people, totaling two boats and five deaths in two days.
On Tuesday, the United States struck a boat in the Pacific off the west coast of Central America killing two, said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. They were the eighth and ninth strikes, bringing the death toll of attacks since Sept. 2 to 37.
At the White House on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said the strikes will begin hitting land targets.
"They had one today in the Pacific, and the way I look at it -- every time I look -- because it is violent and it is very -- it's amazing, the weaponry, you know they have these boats that go 45 to 50 miles an hour in the water, and when you look at the accuracy and the power -- look, we have the greatest military in the world," he said.
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