{"id":39136,"date":"2026-05-28T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/us-strikes-ship-suspected-of-drug-smuggling-in-eastern-pacific-two-people-killed\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:05:41","slug":"us-strikes-ship-suspected-of-drug-smuggling-in-eastern-pacific-two-people-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/us-strikes-ship-suspected-of-drug-smuggling-in-eastern-pacific-two-people-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"US strikes ship suspected of drug smuggling in Eastern Pacific, two people killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_f8feff1e69fed36a17ce2cc9210838b3.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The US military struck a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Wednesday, killing two people, the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was moving along known narcotics-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was involved in drug-trafficking operations,&#8221; said the statement published on the American social platform X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two &#8220;male narco-terrorists were killed during this operation. No US military forces were harmed,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is part of a wider military campaign targeting suspected drug-trafficking vessels in the region, which has left at least 194 dead since last September.<\/p>\n<p>Legal experts and human rights organizations have warned that these attacks are illegal under international law and could amount to extrajudicial killings. emphasizing that they seem to target civilians.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military struck a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Wednesday, killing two people, the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced, reports Anadolu. &#8220;Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was moving along known narcotics-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was involved in drug-trafficking operations,&#8221; said the statement published on the American social platform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-39136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39138,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39136\/revisions\/39138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}