Hegseth compared the alleged drug traffickers to the terror group that conducted the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. (Photo: Screengrab)

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said that the military conducted a strike against an alleged drug vessel , killing two people.

According to Hegseth, the strike, the eighth since the US military started blowing up alleged drug-carrying boats, was carried out on Tuesday night.

First strike on alleged drug vessel in Pacific Ocean

Unlike the seven previous strikes in the Caribbean, on Tuesday night, the US military targeted a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

With the two deaths on Tuesday night, the toll from all the strikes on suspected drug-carrying boats has reached at least 34 people.

In a brief video released by Hegseth, a smal

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