US conducts 22nd strike on suspected drug-trafficking boat in eastern Pacific, death toll rises to 87

The strike was carried out on Thursday. Pic/X/US Southern Command

The US Southern Command announced that it conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean. This was the 22nd strike the US military carried out against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean that the Trump administration claimed were trafficking drugs.

There were four casualties in the strike, bringing the death toll of the campaign to at least 87 people. The strike was conducted the same day Admiral Frank Bradley appeared for a series of closed-door classified briefings at the US Capitol as lawmakers began an investigation into the very first strike carried out by the military on September 2. The sessions came after a report that Bradley ordered a follow-on attack that killed the survivors to comply with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's demands.

Bradley told lawmakers there was no "kill them all" order from Hegseth. Legal experts have said killing survivors of a strike at sea could be a violation of the laws of military warfare.

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No. of people killed since US strikes began

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