At least two people have died and other 15 were injured as result of a car accident that took place at around six in the afternoon on Thursday in the municipalities of Manzanillo.

The accident took place in the community known as Coboa located on the border between the municipalities of Manzanillo and Yara, when a motorcycle drove into a truck for passenger’s transportation which overturned on the road.

When the accident happened, the injured people were immediately rescued and transferred to the Celia Sánchez Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital in the city of Manzanillo.

Among, the accident victims treated in this hospital, four with serious condition and one in danger to life are reported. The authorities of the medical institution also report that three injured people were transferred to the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Provincial Hospital of Bayamo with head injured.

The political and governmental authorities of the province and Manzanillo immediately went to the Celia Sánchez Hospital to be interested in the state of the injured and provide all the necessary support. (By: Eliexer Peláez Pacheco / Photo: Geraldo Romero Díaz) (with information by Carlos Manuel Gallardo/ Translated by Radio Bayamo)


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