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.<\/p>\n
It added that six others on the speedboat were injured.<\/p>\n
The Cuban commander of the border patrol boat was also wounded, according to Cuba<\/a>‘s interior ministry.<\/p>\n It said the injured were evacuated and are receiving medical attention.<\/p>\n The ministry said the incident is under investigation to establish exactly what happened.<\/p>\n US secretary of state Marco Rubio said no US government personnel were involved.<\/p>\n 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.”<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The crew of the speedboat then opened fire, wounding the commander of the Cuban vessel, the statement added.<\/p>\n Florida<\/a>‘s attorney general James Uthmeier said he was ordering prosecutors to open a separate investigation with other state and federal law enforcement partners.<\/p>\n “The Cuban government cannot be trusted, and we will do everything in our power to hold these communists accountable,” he wrote on X.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: Florida congressman Carlos Gimenez, a Cuban-American former mayor of Miami, demanded an “urgent” investigation into what he called a “massacre”, adding US authorities “must determine whether any of the victims were US citizens or legal residents”.<\/p>\n “This regime must be relegated to the dustbin of history!” he wrote on X.<\/p>\n
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