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US military says it struck vessel in Eastern Pacific, killing two

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WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday two people had been killed in a strike it launched on a vessel in the Eastern Pacific over the weekend, the latest in a series of similar attacks that Washington says target "narco-terrorists" but human rights groups say amount to extrajudicial killings.

The U.S. Southern Command said the strike was carried out on Sunday.

"Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed two narco-terrorists," it said on X.

It did not identify the individuals targeted or specify their affiliation to any group beyond saying the vessel was "operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific."

President Donald Trump's administration has been striking vessels that it accuses of transporting narcotics since September 2025. Sunday's strike marked the first in more than two months.

The U.S. military's strikes on such vessels have killed more than 200 people.

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and independent U.N. experts have called the strikes unlawful extrajudicial killings.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington and Ananya Palyekar in Bengaluru; Editing by Christopher Cushing and Rosalba O'Brien)