The US is facing a wrongful-death lawsuit after a lethal strike on a boat it says was smuggling drugs
The US is facing a wrongful-death lawsuit after a lethal strike on a boat it says was smuggling drugs
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The US is facing a wrongful-death lawsuit after a lethal strike on a boat it says was smuggling drugs
Relatives of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo - among six killed on 14 October - say the Trinidadian men were returning home when their vessel was hit.
The wrongful-death lawsuit is the first filed in federal court in response to lethal strikes conducted on what the government has said are drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
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