Florida calls for investigation after Cuba reports killing four on US boat

Published February 25, 2026 5:40pm ET



Florida officials are demanding an “immediate investigation” into Cuban border patrol officers’ killing of four people on a boat from the United States.

The Cuban Embassy in the U.S. claimed Wednesday that its border patrol was shot at by people in a U.S.-registered vessel approximately 1 nautical mile from the island, reporting that “four aggressors on the foreign vessel were killed and six were injured.”

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