The bodies of two neighbors, a 77-year-old woman and a 55-year-old man, were pulled from the rubble of the Saratoga Hotel in Havana on Tuesday. This discovery brings the new provisional toll of the accidental gas explosion to 42 dead.
Seventeen people hospitalized and three employees missing
According to the Ministry of Health, 54 people were also injured in the explosion, which occurred on Friday morning, and 17 of them are still hospitalized.
Of the 51 employees present on the spot at the time of the tragedy, 23 were killed, three remain hospitalized and 22 were able to leave the hospital, said Tuesday at a press conference Roberto Enrique Calzadilla, delegate of the tourist company Gaviota, detained by the Cuban army.
Three employees remain missing: “two waitresses and a cook,” he said. Initial findings showed that the structure of the hotel was “80% affected” by the blast, according to Calzadilla.