The US military carried out another strike on a boat operating in the Caribbean officials deemed to be a "narco-trafficking vessel" on Friday morning, Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth announced in a social media post. The strike killed all four people who were on board, Hegseth said.
The attack marks at least the four known US military strikes in the Caribbean since the beginning of September, all of which have targeted boats the administration claims are "affiliated" with drug cartels that the US has designated as terrorist organisations in recent months.
Hegseth posted on X on Friday that at President Trump's order, he directed the "lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organisations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility."
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