Cuba declared January 20 mourning for soldiers killed in munitions explosion

Cuba has declared January 20 a day of mourning for 13 soldiers killed in an explosion of ammunition in Holguin province. The announcement was made on January 19 by the country's President Miguel Diaz-Canel on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

"We have declared an official day of mourning <...> January 20 in memory of the brave soldiers who died at the construction site where military materials of the military district of Holguin were stored," the president wrote.

The explosion at a warehouse in Holguin province occurred on the evening of January 7. Preliminarily, the cause was the detonation of obsolete shells. About 1.2 thousand people were evacuated from the areas adjacent to the warehouse, writes "Gazeta.Ru".

Earlier, January 10, The Jerusalem Post reported that six soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were killed in an explosion at a rocket factory of the Palestinian group Hamas in the central part of the Gaza Strip. The factory was partially underground.