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The Unit­ed States has car­ried out an­oth­er strike near Venezue­lan wa­ters, hit­ting a small ves­sel it claims was in­volved in nar­co traf­fick­ing and killing six peo­ple on board.

US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced the op­er­a­tion on his so­cial me­dia plat­form, Truth So­cial, say­ing it was or­dered by Sec­re­tary of War Pe­te Hegseth un­der his au­thor­i­ty as com­man­der in chief.

Trump said the “ki­net­ic strike” tar­get­ed a ves­sel af­fil­i­at­ed with a Des­ig­nat­ed Ter­ror­ist Or­gan­i­sa­tion op­er­at­ing in the US South­ern Com­mand’s area of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.