Mexico City, Mexico.-At least two explosions were heard in the municipality of Marianao, Havana, this afternoon. As we were able to corroborate with reports from residents of the town, the second roar was much more powerful and was heard in various parts of the city.
“They looked like bombs,” Ayanelis Cutiño described to Cubanet. To which Diana Rosa Concepción added that everything in her house was shaken by the magnitude of the accident. “Many ambulances and firefighters have passed. They say that a building collapsed from the explosion, ”said the Cuban, although she is not certain of the consequences of the disaster.
On the other hand, affected residents confirmed that there were no landslides but there was material damage in some apartments in nearby buildings, especially damaged doors and windows.
The tragedy was confirmed on Facebook by the “Cuban Firefighters” profile, which is in charge of making visible the information related to this body on the island.
The user reported that a forest fire in Ciudad Libertad, close to weapons magazines, caused a large explosion in Marianao.
According to said user, Command 7 reported that the fire originated “close to weapons magazines,” for which reason it requested support from special units for 35 minutes, without receiving a response from military personnel.
As a consequence, there was a second, larger explosion that damaged the truck. firefighters and affected the rescuers’ hearing.
So far no loss of human life has been reported.
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