US military says it killed three people in latest Caribbean boat strike

The US military has so far killed 157 alleged members or affiliates of drug organisations in 45 strikes in the Western Hemisphere

File Photo: Boats are anchored in the bay from where Chad Joseph and another man departed for Venezuela, according to family members who believe both were killed in a US military strike and are demanding evidence to support President Donald Trump’s claim that the victims were drug traffickers, in Las Cuevas, Trinidad and Tobago Oct 16, 2025. REUTERS/Andrea de Silva

US forces killed three men whom the military described as illicit drug smugglers in a strike on a boat in the Caribbean, US Southern Command said on Sunday.

Southern Command posted what it said was video of the strike on social media platform X, showing an explosion of a small boat traveling on open water.

The boat was traveling on "known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean," Southern Command said.

The US military has so far killed 157 alleged members or affiliates of drug organizations in 45 strikes against drug trafficking vessels in the Western Hemisphere, a senior US defence official said last month.