US military strike on alleged drug boat kills four in Caribbean

Washington, Sep 20 (UNI) The U.S. military carried out a strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean, killing four people, U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) said Saturday, in the latest in a series of attacks on vessels accused of trafficking narcotics. Southcom said on the social media platform X that, under its direction, the Joint Force Western Hemisphere "executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean." "Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking," Southcom said, adding that the four people killed were "narco-terrorists." The strike was the latest…