Passenger truck accident in Holguín leaves more than twenty people injured

A traffic accident involving a passenger truck occurred this Tuesday morning in the province of Holguín.

“This morning an accident occurred in the section named El Rojo, near the Community of Siboney, in the Holguín municipality of Cacocum,” said the official journalist. Miguel Reyes Mendoza.

The causes, according to a source told the communicator, was the explosion of a tire on the vehicle., which caused it to go off the road and end up overturning.

To date, no deaths have been reported due to the accident., although there is a figure of more than twenty injured.

The injured were given first aid at the Polyclinic of the municipality of Cacocum and then they were transported to the provincial hospital in three ambulances from the SIUM services, said Reyes Mendoza.

Among the wounded, 27 receive care at the Lucía Iñiguez Landín Clinical Surgical Hospital, from the capital of Holguín. “The other is a pregnant woman of more than 25 weeks of gestation who was transferred to the Perinatology ward of the Vladimir Ilich Lenin University Hospital.", indicated the journalist from the official weekly Now Lourdes Pichs Rodríguez.

Of the injured people, only five are in danger of life.

According to the first secretary of the Communist Party in Holguín Joel Queipo Ruíz, “the Ministry of the Interior investigates the causes.”