India, Oct. 23 -- The United States' department of war launched a "lethal kinetic strike" on a vessel allegedly carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific ocean on Wednesday (local time), said secretary of war Pete Hegseth. He said that the strike was carried on the directions of US President Donald Trump.

Three people, whom Hegseth referred to as 'narco-terrorists', were killed in the strike and no US forces were harmed.

Hegseth also claimed that the vessel was operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) and that they had intelligence that it was "involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and was carrying narcotics."

The secretary of war also shared a video of the strike on X (...