Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of the United Mexican States, arrived this Saturday in Cuba through Havana's José Martí International Airport to begin a working visit.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez thanked governments, organizations, friends, and those from different parts of the world who have expressed their solidarity with the people and relatives of the victims of the accident at the Saratoga Hotel.

The General Customs of the Republic (AGR) inaugurated in Havana a modern office on real-time operational communication between international airports to counter organized crime, illicit drug trafficking and prevent terrorism (AIRCOP).

Four more bodies were found under the rubble at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana city, rising the death toll to 22. An explosion destroyed most the hotel around 11 AM, leaving also 74 injured.

Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel made statements to a presidential media team after concluding a meeting called by the government at the Palace of the Revolution to update on the situation associated with the explosion at the Saratoga Hotel.

After the explosion this morning at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana, hundreds of people have gone to the blood collection points set up throughout the province to contribute with their gesture to save the lives of the victims of the accident.

Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, national coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), highlighted today the solidarity of the Cuban people in the face of the accident that occurred Friday at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana, with a preliminary toll of nine dead and more than 30 wounded.

Sacha Llorenti, executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), expressed today the most complete solidarity with the people and government of Cuba for the explosion that occurred this morning at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana.

Jose Angel Portal Miranda, Cuban minister of public health, arrived today in the Miguel Enriquez Hospital, one of the health care centers receiving the victims of the accident that occurred this morning at the Saratoga Hotel.

A group of 35 people are being treated at the General Calixto Garcia Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital due to the impact of an explosion at the Saratoga Hotel, announced today Dr. Miguel Garcia Rodriguez, director of the institution.

It was neither a bomb nor an attack, it was an unfortunate accident, Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel said today about the explosion that took place this morning at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana, with a preliminary toll of nine dead and some thirty injured.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, arrived today in the Hermanos Ameijeiras and Calixto Garcia hospitals in Havana to check on the health situation of the patients hospitalized in both facilities after the explosion that occurred this morning at the Saratoga Hotel.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, Cuban FM, sent today heartfelt condolences to the families of the fatal victims of the accident that took place Friday at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana.

The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, arrived in the vicinity of the Saratoga Hotel in Havana, where a strong explosion occurred today that left serious material damage to the building, to see firsthand the damage caused in that tourist facility in the capital.

A strong explosion occurred in the morning hours today at the Saratoga Hotel in Havana, according to witnesses through publications on social media.