Oil storage facility explodes in Cuba

Cuba4 main explosions occurred in a hearth that broke out on account of a lightning strike yesterday on a tanker on the crude oil storage facility often known as the “Matanzas Tremendous Tanker Base” in town of Matanzas, .

Within the fireplace, in which the flames lined the sky, 1 particular person died and 121 folks have been injured, 5 of them critically.

17 firefighters lacking

Based on the information of İHA, 17 firefighters disappeared in the area the place firefighters and different officers intervened in the flames.

Cuba Within the assertion made by the Ministry of Vitality and Mines, it was said that firefighters and different officers continued to answer the fireplace.

800 folks in the Dubrocq neighborhood close to the fireplace space have been evacuated.

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Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel thanked the quite a few presents of help from Mexico, Venezuela, Russia, Nicaragua, Argentina and Chile. Additionally, a aircraft from Mexico final evening for assist. Cubagot here to

Furthermore Cuba Deputy Secretary of State Carlos Fernndez de Cossio stated the US authorities had provided technical help to place out the fireplace on the oil facility.

The President went to the area

Alternatively, it was reported that President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero went to the port of Matanzas and acquired details about the fireplace and visited the wounded who have been being handled on the hospital.

It’s claimed that the explosion in the port occurred in a tanker at 23:00 yesterday (Friday) and the flames unfold to three extra tankers hours later.

Matanzas Port; Because of its oil wells, refineries, big tanker gear and thermal energy crops, it is called the nation’s largest industrial and industrial port.