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An FBI team has arrived in Cuba to investigate a February armed clash involving Cuban soldiers and the crew of a US-flagged speedboat from Florida, which resulted in multiple deaths and terrorism charges for the survivors. The investigation focuses on the fatal shooting of the US-flagged speedboat.
Detainees accused of coming from the US with intent to sow chaos and attack military units on Communist-ruled island Cuban prosecutors have formally charged six people with crimes of terrorism after a US-flagged speedboat was involved in a deadly shootout with Cuba’s coast guard last week. The US-based Cuban defendants are accused of packing a boat with weapons and heading toward Cuba in hopes of destabilising the government in Havana. Continue reading...
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...
Five people are now dead after the Cuban coast guard opened fire on a US-flagged speedboat during an attempted infiltration by an armed group.
Cuba has accused an armed group on a US-flagged speedboat from Florida of attempting to infiltrate its territory, leading to a shootout with the Cuban coast guard that left four people dead.
Cuban prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against six individuals in exile following a fatal confrontation with the coast guard involving a US-flagged speedboat last week.
Four people were killed and seven injured after a speedboat from Florida entered Cuban waters and opened fire on Cuban forces, who then returned fire, according to the Cuban Ministry of Interior.