The US carried out another strike at an alleged drug vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people, as part of a months-long maritime campaign now totalling at least 66 deaths. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth shared a video of the strike on his X. “Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO),” wrote Hegseth. The strikes, which began on September 2, have reached 16 strikes that have destroyed at least 17 vessels—16 boats and one semi‑submersible—and killed up to 66 people. Hegseth, sharing the success of the strike, wrote, "Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, transiting along a known narco-trafficking

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