Al Jazeera: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United States has said it killed eight people in new attacks on vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean, days after the US military seized a Venezuelan oil tanker amid Washington\u2019s continuing military buildup in Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a post on social media, the US Military Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said that \u201clethal kinetic strikes\u201d targeted three vessels in international waters on Monday, at the direction of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eight people were killed in total, SOUTHCOM said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThree in the first vessel, two in the second and three in the third,\u201d it said, while claiming without providing any evidence that those killed were linked to drug trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At least 90 people have been killed in similar US attacks on dozens of vessels in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea near Venezuela since September, in what international law experts have criticised as extrajudicial killings by the US military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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