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.

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…

Hegseth equated the alleged drug traffickers to the terror group that conducted the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.