Four people were killed in the latest US military airstrike against a suspected drug trafficking ship in the Eastern Pacific on Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in a social media post.
This follows attacks on four suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific on Monday that killed 14 people, according to Hegseth.
Overall, this is the 14th such attack carried out by the United States since the attacks began on September 2, targeting suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Pacific and Caribbean and killing more than 60 people in total.
The United States carried out another attack on a suspected drug trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on October 29, 2025, killing four people.
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In announcing the latest attack Wednesday, Hegseth said that, at the direction of President Donald Trump, the Department of Defense “conducted a lethal kinetic attack against another drug trafficking vessel operated by a designated terrorist organization in the Eastern Pacific.”
“Our intelligence knew that this ship, like all others, was involved in smuggling illicit narcotics, transiting a known drug trafficking route and transporting narcotics,” he continued.
Four men suspected “narcoterrorists” aboard the ship died, according to Hegseth, who posted a video of the strike that was labeled “unclassified.”
Hegseth did not say where the ship came from.
