WASHINGTON: US forces carried out a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela on Friday, killing four people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
The latest strike, which Hegseth announced in a post on X, brings the number of such US attacks to at least four, leaving at least 21 people dead.
An accompanying video shared by Hegseth showed a boat speeding across the waves before being engulfed in smoke and flames.
“Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed,” the Pentagon chief wrote.
He said the strike “was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics — headed to America to poison our people.”
