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Cuban forces kill four on US-registered speedboat
The Cuban government says its forces have shot and killed four people on a US-registered speedboat that entered its waters and opened fire on a patrol boat.
It added that six others on the speedboat were injured. The Cuban commander of the border patrol boat was also wounded, according to Cuba's interior ministry.
It said the injured were evacuated and are receiving medical attention. The ministry said the incident is under investigation to establish exactly what happened.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio said no US government personnel were involved. He added he was awaiting confirmation about whether those in the incident were US citizens, saying: "We're going to verify information independently and reach our own conclusions." The Florida-registered speedboat came within one nautical mile of a channel on Falcones Cay, on Cuba's north coast, when it was approached by five members of a Cuban patrol unit, the interior ministry also said.
The crew of the speedboat then opened fire, wounding the commander of the Cuban vessel, the statement added. Florida's attorney general James Uthmeier said he was ordering prosecutors to open a separate investigation with other state and federal law enforcement partners.
"The Cuban government cannot be trusted, and we will do everything in our power to hold these communists accountable," he wrote on X. Read more from Sky News:UK records warmest day of the year so farAI is developing so fast it is becoming hard to measure Florida congressman Carlos Gimenez, a Cuban-American former mayor of Miami, demanded an "urgent" investigation into what he called a "massacre.
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