Infant killed after coast guard opens fire on boat carrying Venezuelan migrants

The baby's mother was injured after the Trinidad and Tobago coast guard shot at the boat, later saying it fired in self defence'

A Venezuelan woman was shot and wounded and her nine-month-old baby was killed in her arms when Trinidad and Tobago's coast guard opened fire on the boat carrying migrants fleeing their home country.

In a statement posted on Facebook, the coast guard said its personnel had opened fire in self-defence" on Saturday after aggressive manoeuvres" by the migrant craft when it was intercepted as it entered Trinidadian waters late on Saturday.