Cuban firefighters have announced that a major fire that broke out about a week ago at an oil depot in eastern Havana is under control. According to preliminary data, one person died and 14 people were missing.

The fire broke out on Friday evening after lightning struck an oil tank in the suburbs of Matanzas, a city of 140,000 people located 100 kilometers east of Havana, where the flames rose and thick clouds of smoke formed.

Then the fire area expanded and covered three more tanks, the capacity of which is 52 million liters of fuel.

Pictures taken from a Mexican Navy plane showed that the flames in the second tank were less than on previous days.

However, pillars of black smoke are still rising, obscuring the view, and rising from other tanks, and the level of flames is subsiding.

A Mexican Navy ship pumped water from a distance of 150 meters, and five helicopters hovered and continuously sprayed water.