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- Strikes
- 14
- Killed
- 61
- Survivors
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This was the sixth strike in the Pacific in eight days.
This was one of three strikes on four boats in one day in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Mr. Hegseth said that Mexican search and rescue authorities had “accepted the case and assumed responsibility for coordinating the rescue,” but he did not release further details.
This was the second strike in the same day in eastern Pacific Ocean.
This was the third strike in the same day in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
This attack, in the Caribbean Sea, was the first at night, Mr. Hegseth said.
This was the second strike in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
This was the first strike in the eastern Pacific Ocean, an expansion of the strike campaign.
Mr. Hegseth described those on the boat as affiliated with Ejército de Liberación Nacional, a Colombian guerrilla group. The strike took place in the Caribbean Sea.
This strike was on a semisubmersible in the Caribbean Sea. Two men from the boat were rescued by the U.S. military and repatriated within days to Colombia and Ecuador.
This strike took place “just off the Coast of Venezuela,” Mr. Trump said.
Colombia’s president said this boat was carrying Colombian citizens.
Officials from the Dominican Republic said they recovered cocaine from the wreckage after this strike.
Colombia’s president said the strike occurred near his country and killed an innocent fisherman.
The first strike on a boat alleged to be carrying drugs was near Trinidad in the Caribbean Sea. The boat appeared to have turned around before being struck.
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