Colleagues and rescuers said goodbye to the body of a worker who died in a collapse in Guiteras

Colleagues from the Thermoelectric Plant (CTE) Antonio Guiteras and rescuers who participated in the search for the four workersthat were buried On Friday after the collapse inside the chimney, they honored the body ofLázaro Frank Montero Pita after being recovered under the rubble.

Images shared on social networks by the media and authorities of the province showed the moments of intense drama that were experienced after rescuing the lifeless body of the last worker buried in a collapse at the Matanzas thermoelectric plant, and the second deceased in an accident from which They don't know the causes.

“With total silence and broken faces they said goodbye to the body of Lázaro Frank Montero Pita. A chain of rescuers and personnel who intervened in the work came together to say goodbye. Mission accomplished,” said journalist Pedro Rizo Martínez, from Matanzas television.

On Friday afternoon, the body of Alexis Bernardo Labrada Junco was found, 47 years old, native of Granma and resident in the municipality of Matanzas. The other two workers who were victims of the accident,Ángel Dionis Pérez Montoya andMichael Lopez Navarro, were rescued in the first hours after the incident andevolve without danger to their lives.

“Respect prevails in the CTE Guiteras to fire Lázaro Montero Pita,” the official journalist described on her social networks.Cuban News Agency (ACN), Yenli Lemus Domínguez, sharing the hashtag #ElCorazónEnMatanzas.

The accident occurred on Friday afternoon, when the four workers from the Specialized Construction and Assembly Company (ECME) who were removing soot and vanadium incrustations inside the 110-meter chimney of the CTE, were buried due to to the detachment of an “ashtray” column.

After interrupting the Montero Pita rescue operations at dawn on Saturday, to preserve the lives of rescuers in the face of new dangers of collapse,These were resumed with the arrival of heavy machinery, brought from the Saratoga hotel works in Havana to drill the chimney and more easily access the damaged area.

The day before, Matanzas residents and provincial authoritiesaccompanied the funeral honors of Labrada Junco. Mother,Rosalía Junco He thanked the flowers sent and "the gesture" to the family of the Cuban presidentMiguel Diaz-Canel.

"I thank you very much for what you did for us, for my son," the woman said through tears and recalled that her son always said: "If one day I die, I want them to cremate me and throw my ashes into the Guiteras fireplace."