The United States military conducted its latest Operation Southern Spear strike in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, Southern Command announced. Two people were killed in the “lethal kinetic strike,” and six people reportedly survived the military operation in the Caribbean Sea. It was the third “lethal kinetic strike” in the last week and the fourth total in June. The U.S. military announced the strike in social media posts and a press release.
“On June 21, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” read a post on X. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed during this action, and there were six male survivors.”
After the airstrike and the survivors were discovered, the U.S. military notified the U.S. Coast Guard to deploy personnel to the region and implement search and recovery efforts for the survivors, Southern Command announced.
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There were two other “lethal kinetic strikes” last week — the first on June 16 and the other on June 18. A total of three male suspected “narco-terrorists” were killed in the two strikes. There were two survivors in the June 16 strike, Southern Command reported. An earlier strike on June 3 left two suspected narco-terrorists killed.
So far, there have been 65 strikes carried out on suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Southern Hemisphere that have killed 211 people, according to a tracker by the New York Times.