Cuba says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US operation in Venezuela

"You know, a batch of Cubans were killed yesterday... No decease connected our side," President Donald Trump said.

HAVANA -- An American subject cognition successful Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers implicit the weekend, the Cuban authorities said Sunday successful the archetypal authoritative decease number provided of the American strikes successful the South American nation.

The Cuban subject and constabulary officers were connected a ngo the Caribbean country's subject was carrying retired astatine the petition of Venezuela's government, according to a connection work connected Cuban authorities TV connected Sunday night.

What the Cubans were moving connected successful the South American federation was unclear, but Cuba is simply a adjacent state of Venezuela's authorities and has sent subject and constabulary forces to assistance successful operations for years. Rumors of the deaths circulated connected the land implicit the weekend.

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"You know, a batch of Cubans were killed yesterday," U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One arsenic helium flew Sunday nighttime from Florida backmost to Washington. "There was a batch of decease connected the different side. No decease connected our side."

The U.S. cognition Saturday seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his woman to look prosecution connected an indictment accusing them of participating successful a narco-terrorism conspiracy.

While Venezuela's authorities has acknowledged that a fig of radical died successful the American blasts, they did not corroborate however galore were killed to The Associated Press.

Cuba's authorities announced 2 days of mourning for the Cuban officers who were killed, and erstwhile president and revolutionary person Raúl Castro and President Miguel Díaz-Canel sent condolences to their families. The names of the dormant and the positions they held were not instantly disclosed by Cuban authorities.

"Faithful to their responsibilities for information and defense, our compatriots fulfilled their work with dignity and heroism and fell aft fierce absorption successful nonstop combat against the attackers oregon arsenic a effect of the bombings of the facilities," the authoritative connection said.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the lad of Cuban immigrants, besides pointed to Cuban engagement successful Venezuela implicit the weekend, saying that Maduro's interior information apparatus was headed by Cubans and that they were "propping up Maduro."

"All the guards that assistance support Maduro - this is good known - their full spy agency, each that were afloat of Cubans," Rubio said.

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Associated Press reporters Megan Janetsky successful Mexico City and Darlene Superville aboard Air Force One contributed to this report.