US officials say their military strikes are needed to stem the flow of drugs into the United States. Photo: AP PHOTO

In a renewed strike by the US military on a small boat allegedly carrying illegal drugs, four people have been killed, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says.

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Hegseth described the people struck in a post on the platform X as "four male narco-terrorists".

The attack, he said, was carried out on the orders of US President Donald Trump in international waters off the coast of Venezuela.

Hegseth said the boat was carrying a "substantial amounts of narcotics" and was en ro

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