A deceased worker and another with serious injuries is the balance of an accident that occurred this Thursday at the Covadonga sugar mill, located in Aguada de Pasajeros, Cienfuegos. The event became known, like most of these cases in Cuba, through social networks, where messages circulated stating that the two young people were trapped under a mass of hot sugar.
Facebook profile Aguada reporter He was one of the first to provide details of the accident, in which a young man from the town of Primero de Mayo and another resident of Covadonga were involved. At the moment the identities of the victims are unknown and the incident has not been confirmed by the authorities or by the official press either.
Some network users have provided more details, such as that the young people fell into the funnel that fills the hoppers – used to store liquid and granulated substances – and were trapped with sugar. Internet user Darianna Cervantina Fajardo said she knew one of the victims, whom she identified as “Dariel”, 21, and described as a “so noble” person.
With old infrastructures and in terrible conditions, the sugar mills have known several tragedies. An Internet user, Janyi León Rodríguez, assured that he worked in a mill, where some accidents are “like from a horror movie.”
This accident occurs at the same time that Miguel Díaz-Canel was on a two-day visit to the province of Cienfuegos
This accident occurs at the same time that Miguel Díaz-Canel was on a two-day visit to the province of Cienfuegos. The front pages of the local press were filled with news about his arrival, where the president asked the population for more prominence for “transformation, improvement and growth.”
The newspaper September 5 pointed out that Díaz-Canel visited 150 “socioeconomic enclaves” and spoke with 5,835 people. In these meetings, according to the outlet, urgent issues in Cienfuegos were discussed, such as the high number of crimes that in the first months of 2023, totaling 1,437, particularly those related to theft and slaughter of cattle.
The accident at the Covadonga sugar mill occurs a week after two workers lost their lives last Friday after the collapse of an infrastructure inside the chimney of the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant, in the province of Matanzas. initially they were four people trapped but in the first hours they managed to get two alive and the body of one of the technicians, identified as Alexis Bernardo Labrada, 47 years old.
Due to the danger that entering the chimney posed to the firefighters, the rescue maneuvers were delayed and found the body of Lázaro Frank Montero Pita, 57, going beyond all limitations. one day later.
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