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De­fence Sec­re­tary Pe­te Hegseth on Thurs­day an­nounced an­oth­er dead­ly U.S. strike on a boat he said was traf­fick­ing nar­cotics in the Caribbean Sea.

The at­tack Thurs­day killed three peo­ple aboard the ves­sel, Hegseth said, bring­ing the death toll from the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s cam­paign in South Amer­i­can wa­ters up to at least 69 peo­ple in at least 17 strikes.

Hegseth post­ed a 20-sec­ond video of the strike on so­cial me­dia and wrote, “As we’ve said be­fore, ves­sel strikes on nar­co-ter­ror­ists will con­tin­ue un­til their ... poi­son­ing of the Amer­i­can peo­ple stops.” He claimed the ves­sel was “op­er­at­ed by a Des­ig­nat­ed Ter­ror­ist Or­gan­i­sa­tion.”