The US military struck three alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean yesterday, killing all 11 people on board, US Southern Command said.

 

The Southern Command said in a statement that intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations.  It added that no US military personnel were harmed. The strikes brought the death toll from the US campaign, which began in September, up to at least 135 people killed, with several more survivors of the strikes presumed dead.