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June 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. military killed three people Thursday in its most recent attack on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific, lifting the operation's death toll to at least 211.
The Trump administration has been attacking boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific since early September, drawing allegations from human rights groups and the United Nations that it is committing extrajudicial killings.
Thursday's strike was the 65th known attack by Joint Task Force Southern Spear, and as with the previous strikes, little information was made public by U.S. Southern Command.
SOUTHCOM said in a statement that "intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations."
