MÉRIDA, Mexico.- A young Cuban woman died and 11 people were injured, including three minors, by a accident occurred this Sunday in the Florencia municipality, in Ciego de Ávila, as confirmed media officials.
According to what was revealed on the Facebook profile of Yarisney Pérez Rojas, first secretary of the Municipal Committee of the Party in that territory, a truck fell from about 10 meters high after passing a bridge and caused a dozen injuries. injured.
The truck was heading from the Meneses municipality towards Ciro Redondo and lost control on a curve, known as “La Loma de la Patabola”, which caused the accident.
The accident, which occurred around 7:40 pm, involved a truck belonging to the Acopio Company. The injured were initially treated at the local polyclinic and later transferred to the Dr. Roberto Rodríguez hospital, in Morón, around midnight.
So far, only the death of the young Yenia Ferrer García has been confirmed.
This month, accidents in Cuba have left several victims. Three people died at the beginning of December from a accident of traffic that occurred on the central highway, in the vicinity of the town of Bejuco, province of Las Tunas.
In Facebookhe Newspaper 26 He stated that the accident occurred due to a collision between a rented car and a taxi. He tour He had left Havana bound for Guantánamo and the taxi had left from Las Tunas bound for Matanzas.
Two people who were on board the vehicle renter and the taxi driver died.
“The taxi with license plate B217284, driven by citizen Rodelio Gómez Patino, invaded the opposite lane and collided with the Tour car with license plate T043495, driven by Danilo Gaiza Martínez, a Cuban citizen living abroad, who was passenger to citizen Daniel Gaiza Martínez,” wrote the local newspaper.
The collision between the cars caused a fire in the tourist rental car, which was reduced to ashes.
Days before, a collision between two trains, in the vicinity of the so-called Elevado de Guayos, a town in the municipality of Cabaiguán, province of Sancti Spiritushad caused commotion among the Cuban population.
A report from the state media Escambray pointed out that the collision occurred between a freight train coming from the Mariel Special Development Zone (ZEDM) bound for Camagüey and another originating from Ciego de Ávila in which six wagons were moving with crude oil destined to be processed at the refinery. Sergio Soto from Sancti Spiritus.
As a result of the accident, damage was reported to both machinery and to one of the wagons that transported fuel, which caused the product to spill.
