The US military struck a so-called "drug smuggling ship" in the Caribbean Sea, resulting in the deaths of 3 people.

On April 19th local time, the US Southern Command announced that, under the command of US Southern Command Commander Francis Donovan, the US Special Forces "Southern Spear" carried out a strike on a ship operated by a "designated terrorist organization," killing three people on board. The US Southern Command stated that intelligence confirmed the ship was sailing along a "known drug trafficking route" in the Caribbean Sea and was involved in "drug trafficking operations." In this operation, three male "terrorists" were killed, and there were no casualties on the US military side.