The director of the hospital treating most of the thirty injured patients said that one is in critical condition and three others are in serious condition.
14ymedio, Madrid, 8 January 2026 — At least two people have died in a traffic crash that occurred on Wednesday at around 7 p.m., when a bus coming from Holguín and carrying workers from the Mariel Special Development Zone veered off the road in Jimaguayú, Camagüey. The area, at kilometer 595, is known as the Ignacio curve.
At least 38 people were traveling in the vehicle, two of whom died immediately: an elderly man and a seven-year-old child. In addition, the Manuel Ascunce Domenech Provincial Clinical Surgical Teaching Hospital, which is treating most of the injured, has been providing regular updates on the situation. In one of its latest reports, at around 2:30 a.m., it indicated that two patients were undergoing surgery and another 25 were receiving medical attention.
Dr. Rodolfo Emilio Domínguez Rosabal, director of the center, explained that of all the injured people they received, one was in critical condition and three others were in serious condition. The rest of those affected will remain in minimal care for at least the first 24 hours, during which they will be under observation, and a decision will then be made on how to proceed in each case.
The rest of the injured were distributed among other centers: two are at the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Pediatric Hospital, three at the Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja Military Hospital, and two at the Amalia Simoni Surgical Clinical Hospital, all of whom are out of danger.
Authorities arrived at the scene of the accident or at the hospital, including Walter Simón Noris, first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Jorge Enrique Sutil Sarabia, governor of Camagüey.
This is the first major crash since the beginning of 2026, and the total number of victims from the previous year is still unknown. The latest global data was released in October, at which time there was an increase in traffic crash deaths, with 502 fatalities between January and August of this year.
The National Road Safety Commission said at the time that the figure was equivalent to 80% of the total number of deaths throughout 2024, confirming an upward trend.
Translated by GH
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