(Reuters) – The US military killed two men in a strike on a suspected drug vessel in international waters in the Eastern Pacific on Tuesday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
"Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics," Hegseth said in a post on X.
Hegseth's post included an 18-second video clip of a boat in water that gets struck and explodes.
on Sunday that the US military conducted a lethal strike on a vessel operated by a drug trafficking organization in the Caribbean, killing three men aboard.
The operation, directed by President Donald Trump and carried out in international waters, targeted a vessel known to be carrying narcotics along a smuggling route, with no US forces harmed, Hegseth said in an X post.