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drug-trafficking boat, the fifth such deadly attack in as many days, military officials have announced. US southern command said it conducted “a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations
drugs to the US. Tuesday’s killings came after two people were killed in a US strike on Monday, and five people were killed in two separate strikes on Saturday, also in the eastern Pacific
news …**  The US military said three men were killed when it struck a boat ‘engaged in narco-trafficking operations’. Photograph: US Southern Command/AFP/Getty
news agency report, British maritime risk firm Vanguard identified the crude carrier captured as the Skipper. Venezuela also described that incident as an “act of piracy”. At the time, the US was building
drug use for decades, and in January, officials abruptly cancelled roughly $2bn in grants through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), only to reverse course within days. The whiplash left providers scrambling
drug smuggling boats, among other official acts. The move comes as the [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration) faces mounting scrutiny over recent foreign action, particularly the war with Iran. In Wednesday’s resolution, Yassamin Ansari
boats yesterday** as it launched an operation to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The incident threatened the fragile, month-old ceasefire between the two countries. Iran also fired on the United Arab Emirates, an American