Washington: US military forces killed four people in a strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, amid escalating controversy over a campaign responsible for more than 87 deaths.

The US Southern Command stated the vessel operated in international waters by a Designated Terrorist Organisation and carried illicit narcotics along a known trafficking route. "Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed," the command posted on X, sharing video of a multi-engine boat exploding into flames.

Earlier in the day, lawmakers viewed extended footage of the controversial early September incident during a classified Capitol Hill briefing, where US forces struck wreckage already hit, killing two survivors. Representative Jim Himes, top Democrat on th

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