The U.S. military said one person on board survived the attack and the Coast Guard had been notified.

The U.S. military attacked a ship in the eastern Pacific, killing two people and notifying the U.S. Coast Guard that one person survived the attack.

The U.S. Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, said it carried out a “lethal kinetic strike” on Monday against a vessel it said was involved in drug trafficking, without providing any evidence.

The military said: “Two narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the attack. Immediately after the battle, the U.S. Southern Command notified the U.S. Coast Guard to activate a search and rescue system for survivors.”

Last week, the United States claimed responsibility kill two people The attack was an earlier one in the eastern Pacific, bringing to three the number of attacks on ships ordered by Washington since U.S. forces kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a bloody nighttime assault on the capital Caracas in early January.

According to media monitoring and statistics, the United States has launched about 37 attacks on 39 ships in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea, resulting in the deaths of at least 130 people, including the latest attack on Monday.

Southern Command did not provide details on the medical status of survivors of Monday’s attack, the chances of the U.S. Coast Guard rescuing the person or their likelihood of survival.

While legal scholars, human rights workers and regional leaders accuse the United States of acting as judge, jury and executioner in alleged drug trafficking cases, the United States appears unafraid to conduct deadly operations in international waters near Latin America.

Officials in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration have come under scrutiny amid reports that the first such attack occurred in September 2025, including a follow-up attack that killed survivors clinging to the wreckage of a ship.

Legal experts say The US military committed a crime If it killed the survivors of the shipwreck.

Southern Command released a 10-second video of the airstrike on Monday. In the video, a small motorized boat appears in the military’s crosshairs before being hit, triggering an explosion seconds later.

Although the ship slowed down, some of the ship’s structure appeared to remain intact after the explosion.