gunbattle<\/a> at sea last Wednesday, accusing the Cuban exiles of opening fire on a border guard vessel, saying they came from the United States with the intent to sow chaos and attack military units on the Communist-ruled island.\n <\/p>\n\n Cuban forces returned fire and took the six survivors into custody, Cuba said.\n <\/p>\n
\n There was no further update as to the condition of the wounded detainees, nor their whereabouts at a time of heightened tensions between the US and Cuba. Washington has effectively halted all oil shipments to the Communist-ruled island while demanding political and economic changes.\n <\/p>\n
\n Cuban officials have said the purported infiltrators came armed with nearly 13,000 rounds of ammunition, 13 rifles and 11 pistols, displaying the captured armaments from the studio on a special television program on Friday.\n <\/p>\n
\n They also showed pictures of the vessels, each peppered with bullet holes from the firefight they said took place at a range of 20 meters (66 feet).\n <\/p>\n
\n Cuba has said at least two of those taken into custody had been previously placed on a list of accused terrorists.\n <\/p>\n
\n Prosecutor Edward Robert Campbell told the state television program on Friday the accused faced a host of possible charges including crimes associated with terrorist acts.\n <\/p>\n
\n If convicted they could face prison terms of up to 10 to 15 years for the lesser offenses and 20 to 30 years – or even the death penalty – for the more serious charges, Campbell said.\n <\/p>\n
\n US politicians have expressed skepticism over Cuba\u2019s version of events, calling for independent investigations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio it was not a US operation and that no US government personnel were involved.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Havana Reuters \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Cuban prosecutors formally charged six people with \u201ccrimes of terrorism\u201d and ordered them held in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-177256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}