17 people remain hospitalized after fire in Cuba

Havana, Aug 22 (Prensa Latina) A total of 17 patients are hospitalized due to the fire that occurred several days ago in the fuel depots in the western Cuban province of Matanzas.

The official report of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) reported about the 113 patients who were discharged from the hospital, 107 of them are male and six are female.

Up to the closing of this report, four people were in critical condition, four in serious condition and nine in care.

The incident occurred on the night of Friday, August 5, when an electrical discharge during a storm hit crude oil storage tank 52 of the Matanzas Supertanker Base and the flames devastated four fuel tanks.