The U.S. military on Monday launched three strikes against suspected drug-smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Colombia.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the strikes killed at least 14 people and left one survivor. He said no U.S. forces were harmed during the operation and that Mexican authorities assumed responsibility of finding the one missing survivor.

"Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out three lethal kinetic strikes on four vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO) trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific," Hegseth said in a statement. "The four vessels were known by our intelligence apparatus, transiting along known narco-trafficking routes, and carrying narcotics."

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