(The Hill) – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. military killed four "narco-terrorists" on a boat he said was carrying narcotics off the coast of Venezuela on Friday morning, the latest strike on “narco-trafficking” vessels in the Caribbean Sea.

Hegseth said a “kinetic” strike took out a boat affiliated with a designated terrorist organization in the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility.

No U.S. forces were injured during the operation.

“The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics - headed to America to poison our people,” Hegseth wrote in a post on social media.

Hegseth shared a 38-second video of the strike, showing the vessel being blown up and engulfed in fire.

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