Pentagon, 8 dead in three raids against drug traffickers in the Pacific

(Adnkronos) – American military forces conducted three more raids against suspected drug trafficker vessels in international waters in the Eastern Pacific, killing eight people. The United States Southern Command reported on X that the targeted vessels were transporting drugs along known drug trafficking routes. According to Southcom, three men were killed in the first raid, two in the second, and three in the third. A video of the attacks was also attached to the X post, with each of the vessels hit by a missile. This brings the number of people killed in American raids between the Caribbean and the Pacific to nearly one hundred, who according to American authorities were “drug traffickers” or “terrorists”.