An explosion in the town old Havana This Tuesday night it left one person dead and another hospitalized, according to official media reports on the island.
The event occurred around midnight on February 28 in an old carpentry workshop at Aguacate Street No. 466 and only two people were involved, dedicated to repairing refrigerators according to a note published by the official newspaper Granma.
Through its Facebook profile, the Municipal Administration Council reported that one of the men was transferred to the Calixto García Hospital, but he mourned the death of the other person.
Brigades of the Fire Department of the Ministry of the Interior (Minint), the medical emergency service and the authorities of the territory.
According to cubadebatethe accident occurred due to a gas leak while a refrigerator was being repaired.
The explosion occurs just two weeks after another, presumably linked to a gas leak, occurred at the Cariebbean Hotel, located on Paseo del Prado in Havana, with the result of one person being injured, but without significant damage to the structure of the property.
Others such incidents have occurred in recent months in the island’s capital, but none with the magnitude of the explosion in hotel saratoga occurred in May 2022, which caused the death of 47 people and nearly a hundred injured.
In addition, this incident caused severe damage to the hotel facility and other adjoining buildings.
