US carries out new strike in Caribbean, killing 3 alleged drug smugglers

The U.S. mil­i­tary has car­ried out an­oth­er lethal strike on al­leged drug smug­glers in the Caribbean Sea, De­fence Sec­re­tary Pe­te Hegseth an­nounced Sat­ur­day.

Hegseth in a so­cial me­dia post­ing said the ves­sel was op­er­at­ed by a U.S.-des­ig­nat­ed ter­ror­ist or­gan­i­sa­tion but did not name which group was tar­get­ed. He said three peo­ple were killed in the strike.

It’s at least the 15th such strike car­ried out by the U.S. mil­i­tary in the Caribbean or east­ern Pa­cif­ic since ear­ly Sep­tem­ber.