Madrid Spain.- The Cuban government asked for help from international experts for the search and identification of the disappeared during the fire that broke out on August 5 at the Matanzas Supertanker Base.
According to the official Granma, This Tuesday a scientific meeting took place that allowed assessing the criteria of these specialists from multiple disciplines related to the search work.
For his part, Professor Jorge González Pérez, president of the Cuban Society of Legal Medicine, from Matanzas, indicated that the Cuban team is in communication with “prestigious personalities worldwide, as far as search and identification issues are concerned, and also with entities such as the International Red Cross.”
On August 12, the first remains of those who died in the fire were found, corresponding to four people.
Two days later, the Cuban Minister of Public Health (MINSAP), José Ángel Portal Miranda, reported the discovery of new remains in “several places in the area” of the incident, which “were sent to laboratories for identification.”
So far, specialists have not been able to identify the remains and 14 people are still missing, most of them firefighters.
After the fire at the Supertanker Base, the death of two people has been confirmed (the combatant Juan Carlos Santana Garrido and the 24-year-old firefighter Elier Correa); and 132 injured, of which 18 remain hospitalized.
The regime has also not released the identities and ages of the missing firefighters. However, the complaints on social networks have gone viral, after relatives of young people who were passing compulsory military service reported that they had not heard from their loved ones since they were sent to the front line to fight the flames.
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