US forces launched a new attack against a boat in Pacific waters, in which its three crew members died, thus exceeding 200 deaths in the military campaign ordered by US President Donald Trump, to supposedly end drug trafficking in South America.

The United States Southern Command reported that this Saturday it carried out a lethal kinetic attack (with the use of weapons) against a ship that "was transiting known drug trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was involved in drug trafficking operations."

The three men traveling on the boat, identified by the military command as “narco-terrorists,” lost their lives in the attack. No American service members were injured.

This was the fourth such attack of the week. The first, reported on Tuesday, left two survivors, something unusual in these operations that since their first launch last September left less than 10 survivors.

This operation is part of Operation Spear of the South, which the US launched to increase pressure on the deposed Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, before US forces arrested him in Caracas and transferred him to a detention center in New York in early January.

After this new attack, the total number of deaths resulting from the military campaign rises to 205. US forces have carried out more than 60 attacks against boats. EFE