Cuban authorities announced that four Cuban nationals residing in the US were killed by Cuban border guards in a US-registered speedboat, with the Cuban Interior Ministry stating the occupants intended to infiltrate for 'terrorist purposes'.
Rare clash off island’s coast comes amid oil embargo and heightened tensions between two countries
The Cuban Interior Ministry has said that border guards killed four gunmen and wounded six more on a speedboat bearing a Florida registration off the coast of Cuba’s Villa Clara province.
The rare clash off Cuba’s coast, which took place on Tuesday, comes at a moment of heightened tensions between the United States and Cuba during an oil embargo that has led to an energy and humanitarian crisis...