Several countries send condolences to Cuba following hotel explosion

Firefighters remove debris from the ruins of the Saratoga Lodge, in Havana, on May perhaps 6, 2022.

HAVANA, Cuba (CMC) – In the aftermath of Friday’s explosion at the Saratoga Hotel that led to the fatalities of 22 individuals and left dozens injured, many nations around the world are expressing solidarity with the authorities of Cuba.

On Saturday, the President of Bolivia, Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, President of Bolivia, expressed on Twitter his solidarity with President Miguel Díaz-Canel and the Cuban persons subsequent the incident, that has been attributed to a fuel leak.

“Our solidarity with brother President @DiazCanelB and with the Cuban men and women for the explosion that happened in the Saratoga Hotel, which remaining dead and dozens injured. We mail our condolences to the family members of the victims and all our guidance. Power #Cuba.”

Felix Plasencia, Minister of People’s Electricity for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, expressed also deep sorrow, on behalf of the persons and federal government of the Bolivarian country.

“Go to the People today and Govt of Cuba, and to the family members and kin of the victims, the solidarity of the Bolivarian Venezuela!!!”.

Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s Secretary of Overseas Affairs, regretted the celebration, expressed his solidarity with the victims and their people and asserted that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s stop by to Cuba, set for this weekend, is even now on.

The planned tour carries on as prepared, said Ebrard in reference to López Obrador’s present-day tour of Central The usa and the Caribbean, which contains a functioning visit to the Cuban cash on Sunday.

“I regret the explosion at the Saratoga Resort in Havana, Cuba. Our solidarity to the victims and people affected as nicely as to the persons of that expensive brother country. The planned tour proceeds as prepared.”

Ma Hui, Chinese ambassador to Cuba, prolonged the deepest condolences to the households who missing loved ones in this tragic occasion.

Our hearts are broken, he claimed.

Manu Pineda, Member of the European Parliament, also expressed his feeling on the incident and despatched all his passion and solidarity to the Cuban people today in normal and to the households and good friends of the victims in individual.

On Friday, Cuban President President Diaz-Canel visited the web site of the explosion and the Hermanos Ameijeras clinic.

He stated that reported the explosion was “not a bomb nor an assault, it is a regrettable incident.”

The Saratoga resort was constructed at the end of the 19th century and, by the 1930s, it was just one of the most essential accommodations in the metropolis. It has 96 rooms given that reopening in 2005 immediately after refurbishment.