The U.S. military has conducted its 10th deadly strike on a suspected drug-running boat, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, blaming the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang for operating the vessel.

In a social media post, Hegseth said the strike killed six people.

The pace of the strikes, which have now resulted in at least 43 deaths, has quickened in recent days from one every few weeks in early September, when they first began. Two of the strikes this week were carried out in the eastern Pacific Ocean , expanding the area in which the military was launching attacks.

In a 20-second black and white video of the strike posted to social media, a small boat can be seen apparently sitting motionless on the water when a long thin projectile descends on it, triggering an explosion. T

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