Cuban authorities identified the six people who lost their lives in the municipality of San Antonio del Sur during Oscar's passage through the province of Guantánamo.
Among the deceased are three elderly people, over 80 years old, and a five-year-old girl. The other two fatalities were between 30 and 40 years old.
According to the Facebook profile 'Miguel Noticias', by the official journalist Miguel Reyes Mendoza, the deceased are:
- Francisco Colombia Matos, 92 years old
- Esmeraldo Noa Fiffe, 82 years old
- Antolino Areas Domínguez, 84 years old
- Alexander Saben Matos, 42 years old
- Irianni Labañino Domínguez, 31 years old
- Liz Anyi Elias Labañino, 5 years old
This Monday, the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel reported the death of at least six people in the town of San Antonio del Sur, as a result of Hurricane Oscar, which made landfall this Sunday and then weakened to a tropical storm.
"Unfortunately, based on the information we have, six human lives have been lost in the municipality of San Antonio del Sur. Rescue operations for the population are still ongoing, assessing the damages and impacts because there are areas that are completely flooded and have not yet been accessed," said the ruler in statements to Cuban television.
The information provided by the authorities does not reveal the cause of death for these six Cubans, but from the images shared on social media about the search efforts, it is presumed that the victims may have died by drowning, due to the severe flooding reported in the area.
"It must be said that the municipalities of San Antonio and Imías have been strongly hit by this event. There have even been recorded levels of flooding that were not historically documented in these two areas," the ruler also said.
On his social media, Díaz-Canel insisted that there are still areas considered inaccessible, and emphasized that the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) are working on rescue operations in those municipalities.
The coincidence of Oscar's passage through Eastern Cuba with the collapse of the national electro-energy system (SEN) left hundreds of thousands of Cubans without electricity and without the possibility of receiving accurate information about the weather event, a situation that raised alarms among civil society, which recognized the risk it posed to thousands of residents in that region.
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