ByZachary Folk,
Forbes Staff.
The U.S. military struck two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Sunday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a statement on social media Monday morning, killing six people accused of being “narco-terrorists” as the Trump administration’s campaign targeting drug trafficking routes in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea.
The U.S. struck two different boats in the Pacific on Sunday, Hegseth said, each carrying three people he said were “male narco-terrorists” in international waters.
Hegseth said both boats were “associated” with known narcotics smuggling operations, carrying drugs and traveling “along a known narco-trafficking transit route in the Eastern Pacific,” but did not disclose their identities or where exactly in the Pacific Ocean they were found.
