In this screengrab of a video shared by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on October 22, 2025, a boat is seen shortly before it is hit by a strike, on October 21, 2025. Hegseth said two people onboard were killed in the strike. Pete Hegseth/X

The US military conducted a lethal strike against a boat in the eastern Pacific on Tuesday, killing both people on board, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

The strike on the vessel in the Pacific, the 8th known strike by the US military on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel since the start of September, appears to mark an expansion of the US military campaign, with all seven previous strikes targeting boats in the Caribbean Sea.

“Narco-terrorists intending to bring poison to our shores, will find no safe harbor anywhere in our hemisphere

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