A fire at a fuel depot in western Cuba sparked by a lightning strike has injured more than 60 people, three of them critically, officials said yesterday.
HAVANA, Cuba - A fire at a fuel depot in western Cuba sparked by a lightning strike has injured more than 60 people, three of them critically, officials said Saturday.
View of the massive fire at a fuel depot, sparked overnight by a lightning strike, in Matanzas, in western Cuba, taken on August 6,
Cuba asked for help Saturday to contain a massive fire at a fuel depot that has left at least one person dead, 121 people injured and 17 firefighters missing.
HAVANA - Cuba asked for help Saturday to contain a massive fire at a fuel depot that has left at least one person dead, 121 people injured and 17 firefighters missing.
Cuba on Saturday asked for help to contain a massive fire at a fuel depot that has left at least one person dead, 121 people injured and 17 firefighters missing.
About 1,900 people have been evacuated from the affected area, said officials from the western Matanzas Province, where lightning struck a fuel tank late on Friday, triggering an explosion.
Provincial health official Luis Armando Wong told a news conference on Saturday evening that a first body had been recovered at the site.
Five people were critically injured, the Cuban presidency wrote on Twitter, with three others in a very serious condition in