War Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that two suspected drug smugglers were killed during a lethal kinetic strike.
Two suspected drug smugglers on a vessel were killed during a U.S. military drone strike, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday.
The “lethal kinetic strike” was ordered by President Donald Trump and conducted in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO), Hegseth said.
The strike is the 16th since Trump began targeting drug smuggling boats suspected of transporting illegal drugs into the United States.
