Cuba seeks help to contain depot fire that has killed at least one and injured 121, with 17 firefighters still unaccounted for
Massive oil-fed fire burns near supertanker port in Matanzas as Mexico and Venezuela send teams to help fight the inferno and Cuba accepts US offer of unspecified"technical advice".
Some 1,900 people have been evacuated from the affected area, according to officials from the western Matanzas province, where lightning struck a fuel tank late on Friday, triggering an explosion. Five people were critically injured, according to an update by the Cuban presidency on Twitter, with three others in a very serious condition in hospital.The president's office said 17 firefighters were missing, those "who were closest" to the fire in an industrial zone of Matanzas, a city some 100 kilometers east of Havana.
: "We want to make clear that law authorises US entities and organisations to provide disaster relief and response in Cuba."Dousing blaze 'could take time' Exhausted firefighters were gathered at the plant, waiting to enter to look for their comrades who seemingly could not escape the second explosion.
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