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A family in Colombia has filed a petition with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was subject to an “extrajudicial killing” in a US airstrike.

Carranza, 42, appears to have been killed on September 15 in the second strike of the Trump administration’s bombing campaign against what it alleges are drug boats. Carranza’s family has said he was a fisher who would often set out in search of marlin and tuna.

In the past three months, at least 83 people have been killed in US airstrikes on more than 20 vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific, attacks the UN and other humanitarian organizations have described as extrajudicial killings. The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is unde

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