The president of the Provincial Defense Council in Havana, Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar, commented in a recent interview for Cuban television that thedamage caused by the tornado They have been “severe.”
Torres Iríbar, who was returning from a tour of some of the Havana towns impacted by the meteorological phenomenon, stated that although "intense rains" and "penetrations of the sea" were "expected" on Sunday afternoon,The tornado was “something that could not be foreseen.”
Such a phenomenon It had not hit Havana since December 26, 1940, when a large tornado crossed the south of the city and left almost 40 dead and more than 400 injured.
According to the representative of the government of the Cuban capital,The natural disaster “has deeply touched” public institutions and homes, "especially to the municipality of Regla."
Oct. 10 and San Miguel del Padrón, were other Havana territories that received the impact of strong winds and rains.
The phenomenon knocked down trees, traffic lights, telephone and electricity poles, caused cars and buses to overturn and ripped off the roofs of dozens of buildings.
Havana woke up this Monday showing a sad scene of destruction after the scourge of the powerful tornado, whichhas left at least three dead and 172 injured.
Among the injured are the 25 people who were inside a bus at the time of the disaster. These were rescued and taken to the Regla polyclinic. Meanwhile, in the Diez de Octubre municipality it was necessary to transfer the patients from theChildren of Galicia maternal hospital, mostly pregnant women and children.
Likewise, Luis Antonio Torres declared to state television that the figure of three deaths is still preliminary, since due to the collapses in homes it is not ruled out that there are more victims.
“I want to tell you that there are homes that have lost their license plates. The second floors of complete homes were demolished. Buildings that lost (...) part of the roof,” he added.
In the town of Chibás, in the municipality of Guanabacoa, the roof of a transit shelter - where approximately 200 people were staying - was "completely destroyed," reported Torres Iríbar.
This Sunday eveningSeveral areas of the Cuban capital felt the impact of the powerful tornado, whose winds reached gusts of 100 km/h. The phenomenon was caused by "an extratropical low that descended from the southeastern Gulf of Mexico to the western region of the country."
During the night, flooding was also recorded in several sectors of Havana's Malecón and other low-lying areas of the coast both in the capital and in the western provinces of Pinar del Río, Mayabeque and Artemisa, according to a preliminary report from Cuban authorities.
The Havana Road Safety Commission reported the closure of numerous streets and avenues in the capital and asked to "maintain discipline" to avoid accidents.
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