President Donald Trump said the US military has carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month.

Trump in a social media posting said the strike killed three and was carried out against a vessel "affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organisation conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility."

He did not provide more precise details about the location of the strike, and the White House and Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

"Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage en route to poison Americans," Trump said in the post.

Trump on Monday announced the US military had carried out a strike on a boat allegedly carry

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