India, Aug. 25 -- US forces have struck another vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs.

The US Southern Command announced the strike in a social media post early Monday. The death toll from the Trump administration's campaign of bombing boats off Latin America's Caribbean coast and in the eastern Pacific now exceeds 210 after more than 60 strikes.

The Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere "executed a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific." Intelligence confirmed the vessel was carrying illegal drugs, the statement said. "We are committed to imposing total systemic friction on narco-terrorists - disrupting...