A worker of a cafeteria dates in a collapse in Centro Habana

Havana/A partial collapse, which occurred on Thursday in a building in the corner of San Rafael and Galiano, in Centro Habana, the lives of an employee who worked at the premises of the ground floor was claimed. The collapse of the ceiling left several people trapped, one of whom could not be rescued alive by firefighters, he confirmed 14ymedio In the place of facts.

The building, which houses the Boulevard coffee on the ground floor, has a quarter shop with infrastructure and overcrowding problems. Part of the ceiling collapsed on trade workers and one of them died under the rubble. All the apple in which the construction is located has alarming signals of deterioration and lack of maintenance.

So far the official media have not echoed the news and the identity of the dead worker in the incident is unknown, although several witnesses describe him as “a young man of a little more than 30 years who was custodian” but others define him as “a builder” who worked in repair tasks. The area, very central and busy, came after the collapse firefighters, ambulances and rescue personnel.

Some curious, taking advantage of the absence of the police, tried to enter to take photos and record videos with their phones, but a neighbor prevented them. Another resident said that the tenant of the upper floor had spoiled the materials with which he planned to repair his home.

From the outside of the property the collapse of the structure is barely visible. “This building is full of leaks, the cafeteria with a lot of painter on the facade but has always had problems that water falls from the top houses, this has been declared inhabitable for years,” denounces an Internet user that identifies as a neighbor of the property at the foot of one of the Facebook publications that reported the incident.

The tragedy coincided with a visit developed by the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel for “various significant places in the Cuban capital,” the official press reported. The journey included the anti -imperialist gallery in El Vedado, a few meters from the United States embassy, several cultural institutions of the historic center and the Pioneer Palace Ernesto Che Guevara, reopened in April.

The heavy rains of recent days have contributed to accelerate the collapse of several buildings in the Cuban capital. In just four days there were several total or partial landslides and two fatalities. The first one was a baby of just five months who died last Monday.

The little one, identified as Neimar Francisco Valdés Pérez, died drowned after the water broke into his house, in the neighborhood of El Cerro, when a wall was collapsed.

On Wednesday night parts of the balcon As reported The Facebook page the scissors at the time when the pieces of concrete and bricks fell had no person through the place, something that the neighbors who reported the incident classify “exceptional”.

On Saturday, July 12, a multifamily building suffered a collapse in Havana Vieja, leaving three deaths under the ruins: A marriage and his seven -year -old daughter. A few hours before, in October ten, another property “in the process of demolition” also collapsed With three people inside and one of them died.