U.S. Officials Confirm Americans among the Dead and Injured after Boat Shootout in Cuba

At least one American citizen was killed and another injured in a deadly gun battle between Cuban border guards and a group of individuals aboard a U.S.-registered boat that occurred off the coast of the Caribbean island nation, two U.S. State Department officials and a White House official told ABC News on Thursday.

The U.S. officials also confirmed that one of the individuals on the boat was holding a K-1 visa, which allows foreigners to enter the U.S. to marry an American citizen. 

Four people aboard the boat were killed and six others on the vessel were injured in the "confrontation" on Wednesday, about one nautical mile northeast of the El Pino channel, in Cayo Falcones in the Villa Clara province on Cuba's north coast, the Cuban Ministry of Interior said.

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