One of the injured in fire at the Supertanker Base from the Industrial Zone of Matanzas, in western Cuba, received a medical discharge, for which there are 11 hospitalized so far, the island’s health authorities reported this Saturday.
The Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) reported that of those hospitalized in health centers – ten men and one woman – four are still reported as critical, one serious and six care.
The large-scale incident, which began on August 5 in the largest fuel depots in the country and was declared extinct a week later, left 16 dead, 146 injured and 119 medical discharges, according to the MINSAP.
The dissidence and some NGOs have criticized that among the dead there are young people who passed the military service, information that until now has not been confirmed by the Executive, although the identities of each of the deceased were revealed.
Officially reveal the identity of those who disappeared in the fire in Matanzas
Considered the largest industrial accident recorded in the history of the Caribbean country, the fire burned four of the eight crude oil tanks at the Supertanker Base in the province of Matanzas, the most important on the island.
The Cuban authorities explained that an electrical discharge hit one of the tanks in the industrial park.
The fire spread from the first tank to three other tanks in the facility – with a capacity of 50,000 cubic meters each – causing strong explosions, with flames of several tens of meters.
Cuba decreed two days of official mourning on August 18.
