US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the military conducted its eighth strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel, this time in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people.

The strike marks the first known US military operation in the Pacific since President Donald Trump launched his renewed offensive against narco-trafficking , a campaign that has already seen seven lethal strikes in the Caribbean.

"Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organisation," Hegseth posted on X, sharing a dramatic video of the attack.

Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terroris

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