Lightning Sparks Huge Fire in Cuba Oil Tanks
️ Lightning struck a Cuban oil tank in the Cuban city of Matanzas Friday, causing a huge fire and at least four explosions, Cuban authorities said.
A fire at a fuel depot in western Cuba sparked by a lightning strike has injured more than 60 people, three of them critically, officials said Saturday.
The official newspaper Granma attributed the fire, which began Friday evening, to an "electric discharge" that struck a tank at the depot outside the city of Matanzas, 100 kilometers east of Havana.
The fire spread early Saturday from one fuel tank to a second, sending a huge plume of black smoke into the sky.
The Faustino Perez provincial hospital reported that 67 people had been injured, with 15 in serious or very serious condition.
And the Cuban presidency said 17 others, primarily firefighters, are listed as missing. And some 800 people had been evacuated from the area, according to regional officials.
(AFP)
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