The US military said four people were killed after it attacked another ship accused of drug smuggling in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
The US Southern Command stated on social media that the ship was being operated by narco-terrorists along a known trafficking route.
The military did not provide evidence for the allegations, but posted a video of a ship moving through the water before an explosion occurred, the Telegraph reports.
The attack brought the total number of known attacks on ships to 26 with at least 99 people killed, according to figures announced by the Trump administration.
Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stop the flow of drugs into the United States, and claimed that the US is engaged in an "armed conflict" with drug cartels.
The administration is facing increasing scrutiny from lawmakers over its campaign of ship attacks. The first attack in early September included a follow-up attack that killed two survivors trapped in the wreckage of a ship after the initial strike.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the Pentagon will not publicly release the unedited video of the attack, as questions mounted in Congress about the incident and the general buildup of U.S. military forces near Venezuela.
On Wednesday, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate agreed on language in a defense bill that threatened to withhold a quarter of Hegseth's travel budget until he provided unedited video of the attacks, as well as the orders authorizing them, to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
The attack occurred on the same day that House Republicans rejected a pair of Democratic-backed resolutions that would have put a check on President Donald Trump's power to use military force against drug cartels and the nation of Venezuela. /Telegraph
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