The fire caused by lightning has ravaged for a week and also made 132 injured.
Le Monde with AFP
The fire that raged for a week in an oil depot in the west of Cuba is finished, after making two dead, fourteen missing and 132 injured, the government announced on Friday, August 12. “At seven in the morning, the fire was declared liquidated,” tweeted the Cuban presidency.
About sixty experts in legal medicine entered the victimized zone to try to find the bodies of the missing people, added the presidency.
four reservoirs on eight have burned
The fire, caused by lightning, declared himself on August 5 in the oil depot of Matanzas, the largest in Cuba, 100 km east of Havana. Four tanks that can contain up to 52 million liters of crude oil or fuel oil have burned, on the eight of the deposit.
Two firefighters died in the fire, which also made 132 injured, 23 of whom were still hospitalized on Friday. Four of these wounded are in critical condition.
The loss of millions of liters of fuel, strategic to supply the country’s thermoelectric power plants, should worsen the already tense situation of the electrical supply on the island.