Madrid/At least two people have died in a traffic accident that occurred this Wednesday around 7 pm, when a bus coming from Holguín and transporting workers from the Mariel Special Development Zone, left the road in Jimaguayú, Camagüey. The area, at kilometer 595, is known as the Ignacio curve.
At least 38 people were traveling in the vehicle, of which two lost their lives immediately, an elderly adult and a child of just seven years old. In addition, the Manuel Ascunce Domenech Provincial Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital, which cares for the majority of injured people, has regularly reported on the situation. In one of his last parts, around 2:30 in the morning, he indicated that two patients were undergoing surgery and another 25 were receiving medical attention.
Dr. Rodolfo Emilio Domínguez Rosabal, director of the center, explained that, of all the wounded they received, one was critical and three others were serious. The rest of those affected will remain in minimal care at least during the first 24 hours that they will be under observation and what to do in each case will be evaluated later.
/ Camagüey Television
The rest of the injured were distributed among other centers: two are in the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Pediatric Hospital, three in the Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja Military Hospital and two in the Amalia Simoni Clinical Surgical Hospital, all of them out of danger.
The authorities went to the scene of the accident or the hospital, including Walter Simón Noris, first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Jorge Enrique Sutil Sarabia, governor in Camagüey.
This is the first massive accident since 2026 began and the total victims of the previous year are still unknown. The latest global data was offered in October, at which time an increase in deaths from traffic accidents was recorded, with 502 fatalities between January and August of this year.
The National Road Safety Commission then said that the figure was equivalent to 80% of the total number of deaths throughout 2024, which confirmed an upward trend.
