{"id":71733,"date":"2026-04-14T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/us-military-says-it-killed-four-more-people-in-a-boat-strike-in-the-eastern-pacific\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:07:23","slug":"us-military-says-it-killed-four-more-people-in-a-boat-strike-in-the-eastern-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/us-military-says-it-killed-four-more-people-in-a-boat-strike-in-the-eastern-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"US military says it killed four more people in a boat strike in the eastern Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strike marks third deadly attack on vessels in region in four days, and the killing of 174 people since September<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US military said it killed four more people in a boat strike in the eastern Pacific ocean on Tuesday, marking the third <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/13\/us-military-vessel-strike\">deadly attack<\/a> on vessels in the region in four days.<\/p>\n<p>The US Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced the killings in a social media <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Southcom\/status\/2044185311673213219\">post<\/a>, claiming, without providing evidence, that the men killed were \u201cnarco-terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/14\/us-military-boat-strike-eastern-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike marks third deadly attack on vessels in region in four days, and the killing of 174 people since September Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The US military said it killed four more people in a boat strike in the eastern Pacific ocean on Tuesday, &#8230; <a title=\"US military says it killed four more people in a boat strike in the eastern Pacific\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/us-military-says-it-killed-four-more-people-in-a-boat-strike-in-the-eastern-pacific\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US military says it killed four more people in a boat strike in the eastern Pacific\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}