WASHINGTON: A new US strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat killed two people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday, announcing Washington’s first such attack on a vessel in the Pacific Ocean.
The strike — which Hegseth announced in a post on X that featured a video of a boat being engulfed in flames — brings the total number to at least eight, leaving at least 34 people dead.
“There were two narco-terrorists aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. Both terrorists were killed and no US forces were harmed in this strike,” Hegseth said of Tuesday’s action in the eastern Pacific.
Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific.
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