The US has confirmed a seventh strike in the southern Caribbean, killing three more people it claims were “narco-terrorists”,  bringing the total death toll of the US military's lethal boat strikes since September to 32.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted on his X account earlier today that on Friday, under the direction of US President Donald Trump, the Department of War conducted the strike on a vessel it claims is associated with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), a Colombian far-left guerrilla insurgency group.

Hegseth claimed the vessel was known by US intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling and was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics. The strike, he said, was conducted in international waters.