The US military said it killed two people in a strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday.
"Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," the US military said in a statement on X/Twitter, adding that no US military forces were harmed.
According to CNN, at least 119 people have now been killed in American military strikes on suspected drug boats as part of the Trump administration's so-called campaign against narcotics trafficking.
Trump admin. sued over deaths in boat strike off Venezuela's coast
Two weeks ago, family members of two men killed in a US missile strike against a suspected drug boat near Venezuela filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging the pair were murdered in a "manifestly unlawful" military campaign targeting civilian vessels.
Civil rights lawyers filed the lawsuit in Boston's federal court, marking the first court challenge to one of the missile strikes on vessels in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean authorized by Trump's administration.
"These are lawless killings in cold blood; killings for sport and killings for theater, which is why we need a court of law to proclaim what is true and constrain what is lawless," Baher Azmy, a lawyer for the plaintiffs at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a statement.