US conducts fourth air strike on boat in Caribbean Sea, killing four people

The United States has launched a fourth “lethal, kinetic strike” on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, accusing the vessel of carrying narcotics, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth identified the attack as occurring close to Venezuela in a video posted on the social media platform X on Friday.

A small, narrow boat is captured on video clipping across the waves before the air strike stops and totes the ship’s flames.

Hegseth stated that he was in charge of the attack. No U.S. forces were hurt in the operation, according to he wrote, “Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike.”

The vessel was delivering significant amounts of narcotics to America to poison our people, according to the statement from the strike, which was carried out in international waters just off Venezuela’s coast.

The most recent attack comes after three other similar US airstrikes occurred last month, the first of which occurred on September 2. In that initial attack, eleven people died. Three people were killed in a second and third strike, on September 15 and 19, respectively.

No supporting supporting evidence has been provided for those claims, and the suspects have not yet been identified. In each case, President Donald Trump’s administration has argued that the boats’ occupants were narcotics traffickers heading to the US.

Hegseth, who claimed the US intelligence community had located the most recent target, made the same claim in his announcement on Friday.

He also made a pledge to continue conducting airstrikes on ships in the Caribbean region until the end of drug trafficking.

According to Hegseth, “Our intelligence unquestionably demonstrated that this vessel was operating on a known narco-trafficking transit route, that the people on board were narco-terrorists,” according to Hegseth. “These strikes will continue until the American people’s attacks are over,” he declares. “!

However, legal experts have cautioned that the attacks appear to be in violation of international law, which largely forbids extrajudicial killings when carried out in isolation.