At least two people died because of the heavy rains caused by the imelda storm in the east of the country, which has left thousands of displaced, floods, landslides, overflow of rivers and incommunicado areas.
Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero, lamented on Monday “the death of two people” in a message on social networks. The head of the island government asked “the people to stay informed and join the recovery as possible.”
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With the authorities of the provinces affected by heavy rains, especially Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba, where we regret the death of two people. We ask the people to stay informed and join the recovery as soon as possible. pic.twitter.com/9lgrudss8– Manuel Marrero Cruz (@mmarrerocruz) SEPTEMBER 29, 2025
The most affected provinces are Santiago de Cuba – second in importance – and Guantanamo.
State media also realized this Monday of The death of a 60 -year -old man in Santiago de Cuba when your home collapsed due to rainfall and a land shift. They have not yet transcended more information about the second deceased.
In Santiago – where 250 millimeters of rain – floods and landslides incommunicated 17 communities in which more than 24,000 people reside, according to the official newspaper, were accumulated for 24 hours, according to the official newspaper, according to the official newspaper Granma
Among the material damage, six collapsed homes stand out in Guantanamo and the 22 electrical circuits damaged by the fall of posts, rock impacts and landslides.
Given the forecast that the rains are still maintained this Monday, Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo have suspended the “until new notice” classes at all educational levels.
Precipitation caused the iron access to Santiago de Cuba to be cut. “The flood of the Cochón River took the ballast in the section between kilometers 833.5 and 834 of the double track that gives access to the Santiago capital, leaving it inoperative,” he warned Granma.
In the neighboring province of Guantanamo, more than 18 thousand people are evacuated, mostly in houses of family members and neighbors, and one of its most affected, Hatibonico localities, has been flooded and isolated as two rivers overflow.
More instability
The Institute of Meteorology (INSMET) explained in its sixth notice, published today, that Imelda is strengthening over the Bahamas and has been winning “in organization and intensity”, so “it will continue to generate instability” for the East of Cuba.
Cuban meteorologists have warned that the current cyclone season in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea 2025, in force from June 1 to November 30, will be “very active” with the possible formation of eight hurricanes.
In the 2024 cyclonic season, two hurricanes hit the island, one of them – Óscar – touched land with category 1 by the Guantanamo province. Its winds were up to 130 km/h. Then he degraded tropical storm and left eight deaths, damage to 12,000 homes, floods that isolated communities, losses in agriculture and other ravages.
The other was Rafael, category 3, who punished the Cuban west, mostly to the Artemisa province – with sustained winds of 185 km/h – although also affected the neighbors Havana and Mayabeque – and caused the total collapse of the national electrical system, which affected 10 million people.
EFE/ONCUBA.
