The US has launched its eighth strike against an alleged drug vessel - this time in the Pacific.

The US defence secretary Pete Hegseth revealed the "lethal kinetic" strike on social media.

In a video shared by Mr Hegseth, a small boat carrying brown packages explodes after being struck.

According to the US war secretary, the action killed two "narco-terrorists", taking the death toll from all the strikes to at least 34 people.

"Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a designated terrorist organisation and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific," said Mr Hegseth. X This content is provided by X , which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we

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