Alejandro Carranza's loved ones say he left home on Colombia's Caribbean coast to fish in open waters. Days later, he was dead -- one of 32 alleged drug traffickers killed in US military strikes.

From Santa Marta, northern Colombia, Carranza's family is questioning White House claims that he was carrying narcotics aboard a small vessel targeted last month.

For his wife Katerine Hernandez, he was "a good man" devoted to fishing.

"Why did they just take his life like that?" she asked during an interview Monday with AFP. She denied he had any link to drug trafficking.

"The fishermen have the right to live. Why didn't they just detain them?"

Since the United States began bombing boats in the Caribbean in September, critics have accused Donald Trump's administration of carrying out extraju

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