U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that the country's military carried out another strike on a boat he said was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing all four people aboard.

The strike came a day after Hegseth said the U.S. carried out three strikes in the same region Monday, killing 14 people, as the Trump administration pursues its divisive campaign against drug cartels in the waters off South America.

Hegseth, who has been travelling in Japan and Malaysia, said

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