US expels 2 Cuban diplomats over mysterious ‘physical symptoms’ reported by US personnel

Published time: 9 Aug, 2017 22:07
Edited time: 10 Aug, 2017 02:26

The US State Department has expelled two diplomats from the Cuban Embassy in Washington after US government personnel in Cuba reported “some incidents” which resulted in “a variety of physical symptoms.

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert has not elaborated on the nature of the reported incidents or the symptoms, except to say that they were not life threatening and that the matter is under investigation.

The incidents resulted in a “variety of physical symptoms,” prompting some US government personnel to leave the island, Nauert said at the State Department’s press briefing on Wednesday.

She added that the State Department first heard about them in late 2016, and asked the Cuban diplomats in Washington to leave in May, which they did.

While the State Department has refused to publicly give details of the reported incidents, US officials speaking on condition of anonymity told AP that the symptoms that US embassy staffers in Cuba reported included loss of hearing.

https://www.rt.com/usa/399123-cuba-state-department-incidents/