By Clay Voytek, CNN
(CNN) — The US Coast Guard announced Friday night it has suspended its search for people in the water after US strikes on alleged drug boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean earlier this week.
The US military on Tuesday said it struck a “convoy” of three drug-trafficking boats in international waters, killing three people aboard one boat while those in the other two abandoned their vessel.
US Southern Command previously said it notified the Coast Guard after Tuesday’s strike to activate search and rescue efforts, but it did not say where the strike took place.
The Coast Guard said in a news release Friday that it coordinated more than 65 hours of search efforts about 400 nautical miles southwest of the Mexico-Guatemala border, but “available assets were extremely limited due to distance and range constraints.”
“Suspending a search is never easy and given the exhaustive search effort, lack of positive indications and declining probability of survival, we have suspended active search efforts pending further developments,” Coast Guard Capt. Patrick Dill said in the release. “At this stage of the response, the likelihood of a successful outcome, based on elapsed time, environmental conditions, and available resources for a person in the water is very low.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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