A second fuel storage tank near Cuba's supertanker port in Matanzas exploded on Saturday morning following a blaze which burnt through the night after lightning hit another tank on Friday evening.
Cuban state-run television said at least 49 people were injured in the second blast. Civilians had already been evacuated from the area.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel visited the scene 80 miles east of Havana around midnight and returned during the morning as state-run television broadcast live coverage of the unfolding disaster.
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