The number of injuries rose to 29 people for him traffic accident that occurred this Tuesday morning in the Holguín municipality of Cacocum, when a passenger transport truck overturned on the road. Five of them remain in critical condition.
“In a section of the Siboney neighborhood, an accident occurred involving a private Fargo truck, with license plate P-219888, which was covering the Holguín-Bayamo route, with 30 passengers on board,” said the site associated with the Cuban Ministry of the Interior Realidades desde Holguín in your profile at Facebook.
According to the source, the accident occurred due to "a technical defect that jammed the right front tire, causing the vehicle to leave the road and overturn."
Preliminarily, the cause was described as a tire explosion on the vehicle., which caused it to go off the road and end up overturning.
The injured were transferred to different hospital institutions in the east of the country.
The first information about the event stated that The largest number of injured people had been taken to the Lucía Iñiguez Landín Provincial Hospital and one to the Vladimir Ilich Lenin General Hospital, both in Holguín.. The latter is a pregnant woman at 25 weeks gestation.
The new information notifies that Four people were transferred to the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes hospital in Bayamo, in Granma.
In the Lucía Iñiguez hospital profile it was reported that: “the classification given to the patients treated at the hospital reveals that only five of them are in critical condition, which indicates that their condition is extremely serious so far.”
They assure that "these patients are treated with the greatest promptness and dedication by the medical and nursing team, with the aim of providing them with the best possible care in this very complicated situation."
Traffic accidents do not let up on Cuban roads.
Just this morning, six people traveling in a private car had an accident on the highway from Jobabo to Colombia (between the settlements of Berrocal and Leningrad), in the province of Las Tunas.
According to the official radio station Radio Cabaniguán, the injured were immediately transferred to hospital institutions in both municipalities, several with minor injuries and others with serious injuries.
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