What We Know About the Gun Battle Off the Coast of Cuba

Four armed Cubans aboard a Florida-registered speedboat died in a gunfight with Cuban border troops near the island nation’s coast on Wednesday, the local authorities said.

The gunfight also wounded six others on the speedboat after it entered Cuba’s territorial waters, Cuba’s Interior Ministry said.

The 10 men on the speedboat were Cuban citizens living in the United States, according to a Cuban state media report, citing a statement from the Interior Ministry. The report said that “preliminary declarations” by men detained from the boat indicated that they were intent on “an infiltration with terrorist ends.” The statement did not specify how the government arrived at that conclusion.