FBI Team Arrives in Cuba for Independent Probe Into Deadly Speedboat Firefight

U.S. investigators will verify Cuban accounts of the February incident, which left five dead.

A vintage car passes the U.S. Embassy in Havana on June 15, 2022. Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters

A technical team from the FBI arrived in Cuba to do an independent investigation after a deadly Feb. 25 firefight between Cuban soldiers and 10 people on a Florida-registered speedboat in Cuban waters.

The U.S. Embassy in Cuba said in a statement to The Epoch Times that the FBI team arrived this week as part of a “thorough and independent investigation” into the Feb. 25 incident.