"At 4 p.m. this Friday [20:00 GMT], work at the scene made it possible to identify the first fragments of bone remains belonging to four different people," Portal said on social media.
A fire started at an oil depot in Matanzas on August 5, after lightning hit the dome of a tank containing some 25,000 cubic meters of oil. The fire then spread to adjacent tanks and firefighters were able to finally extinguish the blaze only this past Thursday. As a result, at least two firefighters have died and 14 people remain missing. More than 130 people were injured, 23 of them remain hospitalized.
Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez has thanked the governments of Russia, Mexico, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Argentina and Chile for their offers of assistance following the fire. He also thanked the US for technical consultations.