Overview
- Cuba’s Interior Ministry reports border guards approached a Florida-registered speedboat that then fired on them, injuring the patrol commander.
- Cuban forces say they returned fire, leaving four people on the boat dead and six wounded who were evacuated for treatment.
- The vessel was detected about one nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel near Cayo Falcones in Villa Clara and carried the registration FL7726SH.
- Identities and nationalities of those aboard have not been released, and Cuban authorities say an internal investigation is underway.
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier ordered a state probe as U.S. agencies withheld comment, while an unnamed U.S. official told the New York Times the boat was a civilian craft in a flotilla to retrieve relatives and Vice President J.D. Vance said he was briefed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.