The US carries out another attack against a boat linked to drug trafficking and kills two crew members

The US military attacked another ship suspected of transporting drugs in the eastern Pacific, killing two men.

The United States Southern Command published on social networks a video showing a boat floating before being hit by an explosion. In the last seconds of the video, smoke and fire are seen coming out of the boat.

A day earlier, US forces had attacked a suspected drug trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing one man and leaving two survivors. The Southern Command reported that it “immediately notified the United States Coast Guard to activate the search and rescue system for survivors.”

The Trump administration’s campaign to destroy alleged drug trafficking vessels in Latin American waters, including the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea, has continued since early September and has left at least 196 dead in total. The military has not presented evidence that any of the vessels were transporting drugs.

The Pentagon’s aid agency said last week that it will evaluate whether the U.S. military followed an established targeting framework in carrying out attacks on suspected drug trafficking vessels.

The joint targeting cycle, which consists of six phases, includes military commander intent, target development, analysis, decision, execution, and evaluation.

The Pentagon inspector’s office said the review was its own initiative. The legality of the attacks will not be investigatedwhich have come under intense scrutiny from some Democratic lawmakers and military law experts.

The Trump administration claims that The United States is at war against Latin American drug cartelswhom he accuses of being responsible for the plague of fatal overdoses that plague many American communities.

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