Two people on board an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific were killed by a U.S. military strike, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday.

Hegseth said on X that the boat was targeted in a "lethal kinetic strike" in international waters and killed two “narco-terrorists.” He also included video of the strike in the X post.

"Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics," he said.

The term kinetic strike can generally describe deploying launched or fired munitions , but can also mean a strike from a moving aircraft, such as a drone.

Hegseth did not provide the exact location of the strike or the evidence of the trafficking operation claims. The Trump ad

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