Cuba: at least twenty-five dead, including a Spaniard, due to an explosion in a famous hotel in Havana – Le Monde

The partially destroyed Hotel Saratoga after an explosion, probably due to a gas leak, on May 6, 2022, in Havana (Cuba). RAMON ESPINOSA / AP In Cuba, at least twenty-five people died in a powerful explosion which partially destroyed the Saratoga Hotel in the center of Havana, the capital, on Friday. A Spanish tourist is among the victims, according to a report revised upwards and communicated on Saturday May 7. A previous report, Friday evening, reported twenty-two dead and more than fifty injured in this explosion, probably due to a gas leak. “Tragic news comes to us from Cuba,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez tweeted: “A Spanish tourist has died and another Spanish citizen is seriously injured after the Hotel Saratoga explosion. All our affection to the families and to all the victims and injured. All our support also for the Cuban people. Cuban rescuers continued to search through the rubble of the luxury hotel on Saturday in the hope of finding new survivors, noted a journalist from Agence France-Presse (AFP). Research is now concentrated inside the building and in the basement, Cuban television said. Read also: Cuba: at least twenty-two dead due to an explosion in a famous hotel in Havana Works for a reopening on May 10 “What happened is very regrettable, the destruction, especially the loss of life, and also those injured, but once again I want to underline the speed with which the population and the institutions have mobilized”, wrote on Twitter the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel. “It was solidarity that prevailed,” he added as many Cubans rushed on Friday to donate blood and thus come to the aid of the wounded. Search operations continue in the debris of the Hotel Saratoga, on May 6, 2022, in Havana (Cuba). RAMON ESPINOSA / AP Emblematic establishment of Old Havana with its green facade, the hotel, under construction, had been closed to tourists for two years. Only workers and employees were inside preparing for its reopening, scheduled for May 10. The first four floors of the Saratoga Hotel, classified 5 stars and known for having hosted several celebrities in recent years including Mick Jagger, Beyoncé and Madonna, were blown up in the explosion, which occurred around 11 a.m. on Friday (5 p.m. Paris). Condolences and emotion abroad Built in 1880 to house shops, the building had been transformed into a hotel in 1933 and renovated into a luxury establishment in 2005. The first elements indicate that a gas leak , during a refueling operation by a tank truck, was the cause of the explosion. “It was neither a bomb nor an attack, it was a regrettable accident,” said President Diaz-Canel on Friday, who arrived on the spot shortly after the incident, thus wanting to put an end to rumors on social networks which recalled the bombings in several hotels in the 1990s, ordered by Cuban exiles. On Friday, the United States, Canada, the European Union and Venezuela, in particular, expressed their condolences to the Cuban authorities. “Our thanks to the governments, organizations, friends and all those who, from different parts of the world, expressed, in this moment of pain, their solidarity with our people and the relatives of the victims of the tragic accident at the Hotel Saratoga” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla tweeted on Saturday. The World with AFP

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