The U.S. military struck a drug-smuggling vessel on Oct. 17 and killed three occupants, U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed in a post on Oct. 19, saying that the boat was connected to a guerrilla group based in Colombia.
“The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was traveling along a known narco-trafficking route, and was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics,” he wrote in a post on X. A video of the strike was included in the post.
