Cuba says group shot on US-registered speedboat planned 'armed infiltration'
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Cuba has accused 10 people aboard a US-registered speedboat it intercepted off its coast on Wednesday of planning "an infiltration with terrorist aims".
Border guards shot dead four people and injured the other six on the boat, the Cuban interior ministry said, alleging that those aboard the Florida-registered vessel had fired first.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington was investigating the "highly unusual" incident.
The deadly shooting comes at a time of increased tension between the two countries, less than two months after US forces seized Cuba's close ally, Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, and stopped his successor from supplying it with oil.
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