US forces have killed 14 people in strikes on four alleged drug boats in the Pacific, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says.

US forces have killed 14 people in strikes on four alleged drug boats in the Pacific, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says.

US forces in recent weeks carried out at least eight strikes against boats in the Caribbean off Venezuela’s coast, killing about 40 people

This was the first time multiple strikes were announced in a single day.

WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the US military carried out three strikes Monday in the waters of the Eastern Pacific against boats suspected of carrying…

The U.S. military carried out strikes against four vessels in the Eastern Pacific, killing 14 people who were allegedly carrying drugs in known narco-trafficking routes.

The string of strikes in the Eastern Pacific Ocean brings the total known death toll from the US bombing campaign to 57.

The suspected drug traffickers were killed in an escalating conflict taking place at sea.

This latest strike is the fourteenth in a string of deadly attacks under Donald Trump's controversial campaign against drug cartels in South American waters.

"Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed during the strike", US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said

The U.S. military on Wednesday attacked another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing four people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

The White House claimed, without providing evidence, the vessel was operated by a 'designated terrorist organisation'.