{"id":584953,"date":"2026-04-15T03:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584953\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T03:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T03:42:15","slug":"us-military-says-4-killed-in-fourth-drug-boat-strike-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584953\/","title":{"rendered":"US military says 4 killed in fourth \u2018drug boat\u2019 strike in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said in a post on X that the strike \u2013 just as the previous three \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The four new fatalities raise the total death toll of the controversial military campaign to at least 174, according to a tally compiled by Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two people were killed in a strike on Monday, while SOUTHCOM said two strikes on Saturday had killed five people and left one survivor. The US Coast Guard has suspended the search for the survivor from Saturday\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration insists it is effectively at war with what it calls \u201cnarco-terrorists\u201d operating in Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US military said on Tuesday that four people had been killed in a strike on another alleged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[84190,23,2724,12,153145,3140,3,256079,153670,4637,21,19,22,20,25,44041,57442,217354,24,20433],"class_list":{"0":"post-584953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-agence-france-presse","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-eastern-pacific-ocean","13":"tag-latin-america","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-southcom","16":"tag-tehran","17":"tag-truth-social","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-coast-guard","24":"tag-us-military","25":"tag-us-southern-command","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-x"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584953","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=584953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}