The U.S. military carried out a strike against an alleged Venezuelan drug cartel boat Thursday in international waters in the Caribbean, and for the first time there were survivors, according to a U.S. official.

At least one US military strike in the Caribbean over the last two months targeted Colombian nationals on a boat that had left from Colombia, according to two people briefed by the Pentagon about the strikes.

The U.S. military struck a sixth boat in the Caribbean Sea on Thursday, and there were survivors aboard the vessel, a U.S. official told CBS News.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said four people were killed when an alleged drug-trafficking boat was hit on Friday morning.

The parents of the 10-year-old girl killed in a boat crash on Harris Lake during the summer, took legal action against the boat’s occupants Wednesday.