Washington, Oct. 23 -- The U.S. military on Wednesday struck one more suspected drug-trafficking vessel in international waters in the eastern Pacific, killing all three people aboard, U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday night.
"Today ... the Department of War carried out yet another lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO). Yet again, the now-deceased terrorists were engaged in narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific," he wrote on social media platform X.
Hegseth again accused the vessel of carrying narcotics, saying it was traveling along a known narco-trafficking transit route.
"These strikes will continue, day after day. These are not simply drug runners -- these are narc...