US military says it struck vessel in Caribbean, killing four

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON, ‌Oct 4 (Reuters) - ​The ​US military said on Sunday four people were killed in a strike on a vessel ‌in the Caribbean Sea, the latest in a ⁠series of attacks that Washington says target "narco-terrorists" but human rights ‌experts condemn as extrajudicial killings.

DETAILS:

• ‌The US Southern Command said on X it "executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating ​along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean."

• It cited what it called "confirmed intelligence" to allege the ⁠vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking, without providing more details.

• It added that ​four people, whom it called "narco-terrorists," were killed.

• President Donald Trump's administration has said the vessels ​it has struck since September ‌2025 were transporting narcotics.

• US strikes on such vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern ⁠Pacific have killed more than 220 people.

• Experts and rights advocates in the US and abroad have questioned the ⁠legality of the strikes.

• Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and independent ​UN experts have called the strikes unlawful extrajudicial killings.

• Ben Saul, UN special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, has ‌said there are "reasonable grounds to believe" such attacks "constituted crimes against humanity of murder under ‌customary international law."

• The American Civil Liberties Union has ⁠cast the assertions by ‌the Trump administration ​against those it targets as "unsubstantiated, fear-mongering claims."

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Kevin ‌Buckland)

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