The US mil­i­tary car­ried out yet an­oth­er strike against sus­pect­ed drug boats on Sun­day, killing six peo­ple in the East­ern Pa­cif­ic, ac­cord­ing to Sec­re­tary of De­fence Pe­te Hegseth.

The mil­i­tary launched two lethal strikes against two sep­a­rate ves­sels “op­er­at­ed by des­ig­nat­ed ter­ror­ist or­gan­i­sa­tions,” Hegseth wrote on X, with­out dis­clos­ing which or­gan­i­sa­tions the ships’ crews were be­lieved to have been af­fil­i­at­ed with.

“These ves­sels were known by our in­tel­li­gence to be as­so­ci­at­ed with il­lic­it nar­cotics smug­gling, were car­ry­ing nar­cotics, and were tran­sit­ing along a known nar­co-traf­fick­ing tran­sit route in the East­ern Pa­cif­ic,” Hegseth said.