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

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

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