US military says it struck vessel in the Caribbean, killing four

The U.S. ​military said on Tuesday four people were killed in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, the latest in a series ​of attacks that Washington says target "narco-terrorists" ⁠but human rights groups condemn as ​extrajudicial killings.President Donald Trump's administration has been striking vessels that it ​accuses of ​transporting narcotics ⁠since September 2025. (AFP)FURTHER DETAILS:• "Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists," the U.S. Southern Command said on X.Also read | Tanker with Indian crew was hit by US while drifting in Gulf of Oman, had engine off• It did ​not identify the individuals or provide details on the location other than to say the vessel was "operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean."• President Donald Trump's administration has been striking vessels that it ​accuses of ​transporting narcotics ⁠since September 2025.• The U.S. military's strikes on ​such ⁠vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific have killed more than 210 people.Also read | Three days, three attacks: How Indian-crewed vessels got caught in fresh US-Iran crossfire• Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and independent U.N. experts have ⁠called ​the strikes unlawful extrajudicial ​killings.• The U.S. military said on Monday two people were killed in a strike it launched on a vessel in the Eastern Pacific over the weekend. That strike marked the first in more than two months.