The five-star, 96-room hotel in Old Havana has two bars, two restaurants and a rooftop pool, according to its website.
RELATED: Kansas gas explosion injures 2; massive fire caught on videoPhotographer Michel Figueroa said he had been walking past the hotel when"the explosion threw me to the ground, and my head still hurts.... Everything was very fast."
Yazira de la Caridad, mother of two, said the explosion shook her home a block from the hotel:"The whole building moved. I thought it was an earthquake," she said."I've still got my heart in my hand." Mayiee Pérez said she had rushed to the scene after receiving a call from her husband, Daniel Serra, who works at a foreign exchange shop inside the hotel. She said he told her,"I am fine, I am fine. They got us out," but had been unable to reach him since.
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