{"id":256712,"date":"2025-10-28T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256712\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:09:12","slug":"us-kills-14-in-strikes-on-four-alleged-drug-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256712\/","title":{"rendered":"US kills 14 in strikes on four alleged drug boats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernd Debusmann Jrat the White House<\/p>\n

\"BBCBBC<\/p>\n

US forces have killed 14 people in strikes on four alleged drug boats in the Pacific, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says.<\/p>\n

He said one survivor was rescued by Mexican search and rescue personnel. <\/p>\n

It is the latest in a series of attacks on boats the US says have been carrying drugs in both the Pacific and Caribbean.<\/p>\n

The latest strikes in the eastern Pacific, which Hegseth said happened on Monday at the direction of President Donald Trump, mark an escalation in what it says is a campaign to target drug traffickers. <\/p>\n

At least 51 people have now been killed in the strikes, which has led to escalation tensions between the US and the governments of both Colombia and Venezuela. <\/p>\n

In a statement on X, Hegseth said the four vessels hit on Monday “were known by our intelligence apparatus, transitioning along known narco-trafficking routes and carrying narcotics”.<\/p>\n

Hegseth added that eight “narco-terrorists” were killed in the first strike. Four and three were killed in the following two strikes. <\/p>\n

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You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App<\/a>. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on X<\/a> to get the latest alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bernd Debusmann Jrat the White House BBC US forces have killed 14 people in strikes on four alleged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-256712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}