In this screengrab taken from a video posted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on October 10, 2025, a boat is visible just before it is hit by a military strike, off the coast of Venezuela. In his post, Hegseth said the boat was trafficking narcotics and that four men onboard were killed. Pete Hegseth/X

The US military carried out another strike on a boat operating in the Caribbean officials deemed to be a “narco-trafficking vessel” on Friday morning, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced in a social media post . The strike killed all four people who were on board, Hegseth said.

The attack marks at least the fourth known US military strike in the Caribbean since the beginning of September, all of which have targeted boats the administration claims are “affiliated” with drug car

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