(Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sunday that the U.S. military conducted a lethal strike on a vessel operated by a drug trafficking organization in the Caribbean, killing three men aboard. The operation, directed by President Donald Trump and carried out in international waters, targeted a vessel known to be carrying narcotics along […]
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US military kills three in strike on drug-trafficking vessel in Caribbean, Hegseth says
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(Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sunday that the U.S. military conducted a lethal strike on a vessel operated by a drug trafficking organization in the Caribbean, killing three men aboard.
The operation, directed by President Donald Trump and carried out in international waters, targeted a vessel known to be carrying narcotics along a smuggling route, with no U.S. forces harmed, Hegseth said in an X post.
(Reporting by Bipasha Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by Jamie Freed)