The US military carried out a “lethal” strike on a vessel allegedly operated by a drug-trafficking organisation in the Caribbean, killing three men aboard, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sunday.

The strike, conducted in international waters under orders from US President Donald Trump, targeted a boat that was reportedly carrying narcotics along a known smuggling route.

“Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization in the Caribbean,” Hegseth wrote. “All three terrorists were killed, and no US forces were harmed in this strike.”

The Pentagon chief said the targeted vessel was “known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smug

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