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OnCuba’s Instagram account has been hacked

OnCuba informs our audience that our Instagram account in Spanish (@oncubanews) has been hacked on Saturday, March 25, by hackers who seized the access data. At this time, we are making all the efforts to recover the access of the account in the shortest possible time and to be able to continue providing our service properly. Thank you all for the constantly support. We'll be back stronger.

Strong explosion reported in Marianao

A strong explosion was reported in the Marianao municipality of Havana. Journalist Lázaro Manuel Alonso made a live broadcast, in which he confirmed that there was no human damage, death or wounded. He said there was only damage to some buildings near the site of the explosion ― still without specifying the exact site ― including a school where there were no students because it was Saturday. Alonso pointed out that Yamila Lamadrid, governor of the municipality, confirmed that the original cause of the explosion was a fire that started “in the undergrowth.” The journalist spoke with the governor of Marianao. Photo: Lazaro Manuel Alonso. The place, said the journalist, is on the border between Marianao and Playa, which explains why the noise was felt in different areas of the city. Photo: Lazaro Manuel Alonso. Many users reported fire sirens moving through the capital. “The flow of sirens has not stopped, I live near the Carlos J. Finlay Military Hospital and a strong explosion was heard,” an OnCuba reader described on our Facebook account.

Photo: CAM Habana/Facebook.

Explosion in Old Havana leaves at least one dead

An explosion in the Old Havana municipality this Tuesday night left one person dead and another hospitalized, according to official media reports on the island. The incident occurred around midnight on February 28 in a former carpentry workshop on No. 466 Aguacate Street and only two people were involved. They were repairing refrigerators, according to a note published by the official newspaper Granma. Through its Facebook profile, the municipality’s Administration Council reported that one of the men was transferred to the Calixto García Hospital, but regretted the death of the other person. Brigades of the Fire Department of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), the emergency medical service and the authorities of the territory went to the place. According to Cubadebate, the accident occurred due to a gas leak while a refrigerator was being repaired. The explosion occurred just two weeks after another, presumably linked to a gas leak, occurred at the Caribbean Hotel, located on Paseo del Prado in Havana, which resulted in one person being injured, but without significant damage to the structure of the property. Other incidents of this type have occurred in recent months in the island’s capital, but none on the scale of the explosion at...

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