US military confirmed four deaths in a Caribbean vessel strike targeting narco-traffickers. Intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in illicit drug trafficking operations. These strikes have resulted in over 210 fatalities since September 2025. Human rights groups have condemned these actions as unlawful extrajudicial killings. A recent Eastern Pacific strike killed two individuals after a two-month pause.

Forces ‘executed a lethal kinetic strike’ on a vessel ‘operating along established narcotrafficking routes’, said US Southern Command.

The attack brings the overall death toll to 223 people killed in 67 strikes during the nearly yearlong U.S. campaign of bombing alleged drug boats.