Truck catches fire on highway in Santiago de Cuba.

A passenger transport truck caught fire this Wednesday in Santiago de Cuba, according to images shared on social media.

Independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada shared a video of the event on Facebook, in which no injuries were reported.

The vehicle, allegedly used for transporting workers from the Moncada cement factory, stopped very close to the CUPET garage at Trocha and Morro when smoke began to come out from its front.

"A truck from the Cement Factory of Santiago de Cuba caught fire on the central Morro and Trocha Road, very close to the CUPET that caught fire a few years ago, where many people died," Mayeta Labrada indicated in her post.

According to their account, the workers traveling in the truck managed to get out of the truck when the smoke started.

“People were running in a panic while others were asking for the fire extinguisher from the gas station on the corner. According to statements from nearby individuals, the car battery might have caught fire,” the communicator added.

In mid-June, the cement factory in Santiago de Cuba made headlines due to an accident involving a worker who fell from a scaffold. Mayeta Labrada shared a photo on Facebook of the man being assisted by his colleagues.

Vehicle fires in Cuba have become more frequent in recent years, either due to the poor quality of fuels or the lithium batteries of electric motorcycles, which explode and often cause deadly fires.

In recent days, a fire in Old Havana caused by the explosion of a motorcycle resulted in one Cuban dead and several damages to the house located at 59 Picota Street, between Acosta and Jesús María.

In mid-August, another fire caused by the explosion of an electric motorcycle occurred in a house located on Callejón de Guma between Mujica and San Gabriel, in Matanzas, although fortunately this time there were no human casualties.