Cuba_ At least three people died and 172 were injured as a result of the damage caused by a strong tornado that hit areas of the capital of Cuba on Sunday night, official sources said today, Cubasí reports.

 

According to preliminary data cited by authorities and the television magazine Buenos Días, the dead and injured were victims of the collapse of houses and trees or other damages caused by the meteorological phenomenon.

 

The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, toured with other governmental and political authorities since the early hours of the morning, areas of the most affected municipalities, namely, Guanabacoa, Regla, Diez de Octubre and San Miguel del Padrón.

 

In those areas, state installations, such as maternity hospitals and distribution points for the press, electrical networks and telecommunications, among others, also suffered damage.

 

Prensa Latina noted that the streets and avenues of the capital shows collapsed trees and buildings, as well as the partial interruption of electric services and the closure of roads such as the busy Havana Malecón because of the strong waves.

 

Sources from the National Institute of Meteorology indicated that the tornado was associated with an intense and brief phenomenon of gusts of high intensity winds and copious rains, as well as waves that caused sea penetrations in low areas of the capital's coast.

 

This institution warned early Sunday in a special note about the formation in the morning of an off season tropical storm, in the southeast of the Gulf of Mexico, from which a cold front extends to the south-east southeast.

 

A line of thunderstorms formed ahead of this phenomenon, which with the movement to the east of these systems affected the west of the country at night and early morning.

 

 

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