Building collapse in Havana kills at least one

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1 年前

STORY: The collapse in the Old Havana tourist district gutted the insides of the decrepit building that was home to 13 families and 54 people. It wrenched terraces off its facade and trapped many people beneath piles of rubble and rebar.

Rescuers worked into the daylight hours on Wednesday (October 4) to find two people who remained in the wreckage following a second partial collapse early in the morning as wind and rain lashed the city.

One person had been killed and two others were hospitalized in critical condition, the municipal government said in a statement.

The building collapse is the latest in a series of disasters that have beset crisis-racked Cuba, including a gas explosion that destroyed Havana´s Saratoga Hotel in 2022 and a massive tank farm fire in Matanzas, an hour east of the capital, several months later.