The US military has conducted its 10th strike on a vessel suspected of carrying drugs, killing six people, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The strike brings the death toll of the campaign against drug cartels to at least 46 people.

In a post to social media on Friday, Mr Hegseth said the vessel was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang and the strike occurred in the Caribbean.

The pace of the strikes has quickened in recent days from one every few weeks in September when they first began to three in one week now. Loading Twitter content

Two of the strikes this week were also carried out in the eastern Pacific, expanding the area in which the US military was willing to conduct the strikes.

In a 20-second black-and-white video of the strike that was posted to social

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