US forces have struck another vessel alleged to be carrying drugs, this time in the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
According to US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, two people on board the vessel were killed.
The BBC reports that no US forces were harmed.
The vessel was known to US intelligence and was believed to be carrying drugs along a known trafficking route in international waters.
The strike marks the eighth US strike against suspected drug boats since 2nd September - but the first in the Pacific.
Video of the strike appears to show a long, blue speed boat moving through the water before being struck by US ordinance.
Hegseth said narco-terrorists intending to bring position to the US shores will find no safe harbour anywhere in their hemisphere.
He said just as Al Qaeda wages war on their homeland, these cartels are waging war on the US border and it’s people. At least 34 people have been killed in the American strikes on alleged drug boats, including a recent strike on a semi-submersible vessel in the Caribbean.
[Source: bbc]
