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Collapse at the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Plant leaves four workers trapped: two have been rescued alive

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MIAMI, United States. – Two people were rescued alive and two others remain trapped after the collapse of a partition in the chimney area of ​​the “Antonio Guiteras” Thermoelectric Power Plant, in Matanzas, reported the local channel TV Yumurí.

The journalist José Miguel Solís, correspondent for Radio Rebelde in Matanzas, specified on Facebook that the first of those rescued had a fractured left leg and had been transferred to the “Faustino Pérez” Provincial Hospital.

Meanwhile, the director of the institution, Dr. Taymí Martínez Naranjo, told TV Yumurí that the patient also had a “mild head trauma.”

The workers were working in the lower part of the chimney in the area known as the “ashtray”, from where they extracted soot and carried out other cleaning tasks, when the partition, a wall seven meters high, collapsed.

Second worker rescued (Photo: José Miguel Solís/FB)

Both the two people rescued and the two who are still trapped belong to the Company Specialized in Repair and Maintenance of Chimneys and Work at Height, of the Ministry of Construction.

According to the official media cubadebateat the scene of the accident are the emergency service, the Fire Department and the authorities of the regime in the province, including the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in Matanzas, Susely Morfa González.

Jose Miguel Solis assured on Facebook that “with great care, but without wasting time, firefighters and rescuers” removed bricks from the inside of the chimney” of the thermoelectric plant

Shortly after, around 4:30 in the afternoon, the official reporter reported that the debris inside the chimney continued. “Silence and expectation reign here,” she said.

Collapse at the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Plant leaves four workers trapped: two have been rescued alive
The chimney of the “Antonio Guiteras” Thermoelectric Power Plant is 150 meters high (Photo: José Miguel Solís/FB)

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