By presidential order, specialized personnel from Mexican oil (Pemex) is getting ready to travel to Cuba to help extinguish the fire that caused lightning on Friday in a Matanzas fuel depotin the west of the island and that spread to a second tank in the early hours of this Saturday and caused 49 wounded.
High-level sources from the federal government assured that it was President Andrés Manuel López Obrador himself who gave the instruction.
The fire caused by lightning on Friday in a fuel depot in Matanzas, in western Cuba, spread early this Saturday to a second tank and caused 49 injuries, official sources reported.
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“The fire spread to a second tank,” reported state television, while the Presidency stated on its Twitter account that 49 injured with burns have been treated in hospitals, of them “two critical and seven serious.”
According to the official newspaper Granma, “an electric shock” caused the fire on Friday night in one of the tanks at the supertanker base, on the outskirts of the city of Matanzas, 100 km east of Havana.
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