HAVANA, October 26 (Ernesto Roque, Grupo Decoro / CubaNet) - All residents
of a building that burned down at the corner of Ayestarán and Estrella,
in central Havana, October 25, lost their homes and belongings.
"We have lost all our belongings, but the terrible thing is, now we
have no place to live," said one resident.
Residents will be housed in so-called 'transit communities,' camps where
thousands of Cubans wait, sometimes for years, until the government assigns them
another place to live.
"It's going to be years before can live as a family again," said
the man, "because it's not easy to live in barracks with hundreds of
people."
By four in the afternoon, firemen roped off the site after two partial
collapses rendered it unsafe. The cause of the fire was an explosion in a gas
range, according to firemen.
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