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The U.S. military on Tuesday carried out a lethal strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific that it said was involved in drug trafficking, killing five people it identified as "narco-terrorists," according to U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM).

"On October 27, under the direction of SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific," SOUTHCOM said in a statement.

"Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking," the statement continued.

SOUTHCOM said five people it described as narco-terrorists were killed during the operation.

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