BREAKING: Four reportedly killed in strong explosion at historic hotel in Cuban capital Havana |
The Cuban news agency ACN published photos showing severe damage to the Hotel Saratoga in Havana and clouds of dust billowing into the sky.
Search and rescue work is ongoing at the hotel, where people may still be trapped. The hotel was reportedly undergoing some sort of construction or renovations at the time of the blast.Rescuers work after an explosion in the Saratoga Hotel in Havana, on May 6, 2022. A powerful explosion destroyed part of a hotel under repair in Cuba's capital.that the explosion woke him.
The five-star Hotel Saratoga is heavily damaged after an explosion in Old Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 6, 2022. The semiofficial website Cubadebate reported that nearly clinics were treating people who had been injured and that several ambulances had gone to the scene. It said a school next door had been evacuated.