The attack is the latest in a string of killings by the United States that rights groups say are 'unlawful'.
The killings mark the fourth US deadly strike in the past four days on vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
The US military said on Tuesday that four people had been killed in a strike on another alleged drug-trafficking boat, the fourth such deadly attack in as many days. US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said in a post on X that the strike – just as the previous three – occurred in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It posted aerial video on social media showing a vessel bobbing in the water before being struck by a projectile and exploding. The four new fatalities raise the total death toll of the...