Three people have been injured by the explosion caused by a gas leak this morning in Old Havana, according to Colonel Luis Carlos Guzmán, head of the Cuban Fire Department.
The official has disassociated the explosion from the one that occurred last Friday at the Saratoga hotel and which has left 43 dead, two missing and almost a hundred injured to date.
“We must clarify that it has nothing to do with what happened in the Saratoga. Later we will offer more information about the event,” he told the Informative Magazine Buenos Días, on Cuban Television.
The official journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso has recounted on his social networks that the mayor of Old Havana attributed the explosion to negligence, by leaving the gas tap open for its residents. The firefighters had, according to this version, to turn off the key when they arrived at the building.
“As a result of the explosion at San Nicolás 954, Corrales corner, three people were injured. One of them is already discharged, a child is hospitalized at Juan Manuel Márquez and his father at Calixto García,” he says.
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