The explosion was reportedly caused by a truck supplying the hotel with natural gas.
Updated: May 07, 2022 11:54
| AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa
A member of a rescue team searches for survivors at the site of a deadly explosion that destroyed the five-star Saratoga hotel, in Havana, Cuba. A powerful explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak killed at least 18 people, including a pregnant woman and a child, and injured dozens on Friday when it blew through the exterior walls of the luxury hotel in the heart of the Cuban capital.

| AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa
A member of a rescue team recovers a Cuban national flag from the site of a deadly explosion that destroyed the five-star Saratoga hotel, in Havana, Cuba. A powerful explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak killed at least 18 people, including a pregnant woman and a child, and injured dozens on Friday when it blew through the exterior walls of the luxury hotel in the heart of the Cuban capital.

| AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa
Rescue teams remove debris from the site of a deadly explosion that destroyed the five-star Saratoga hotel, in Havana, Cuba. A powerful explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak killed at least 18 people, including a pregnant woman and a child, and injured dozens on Friday when it blew through the exterior walls of the luxury hotel in the heart of the Cuban capital.

| AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)n Espinosa
Firefighters spray a tanker truck with water to cool it as they pull it out of the site of a deadly explosion that destroyed the five-star Saratoga hotel in Havana, Cuba. A powerful explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak killed at least 18 people, including a pregnant woman and a child, and injured dozens on Friday when it blew through the exterior walls of the luxury hotel in the heart of the Cuban capital.

| AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa
Rescue teams search for survivors at the site of a deadly explosion that destroyed the five-star Saratoga hotel in Havana, Cuba. A powerful explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak killed at least 18 people, including a pregnant woman and a child, and injured dozens on Friday when it blew through the exterior walls of the luxury hotel in the heart of the Cuban capital.

| AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa
A portrait adorns a wall in the living room of a house destroyed by a deadly explosion at the nearby five-star Hotel Saratoga, in Havana, Cuba. A powerful explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak killed at least 18 people, including a pregnant woman and a child, and injured dozens on Friday when it blew through the exterior walls of the luxury hotel in the heart of the Cuban capital.

| AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa
Firefighters spray a tanker truck with water to cool it as they pull it out of the site of a deadly explosion that destroyed the five-star Saratoga hotel in Havana, Cuba. A powerful explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak killed at least 18 people, including a pregnant woman and a child, and injured dozens on Friday when it blew through the exterior walls of the luxury hotel in the heart of the Cuban capital.

| AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa
Rooms are on display at the five-star Saratoga Hotel after a deadly explosion in Old Havana, Cuba.

| AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa
A taxi is buried under rubble at the site of the five-star Saratoga Hotel after a deadly explosion in Old Havana, Cuba.

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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero visit the site after an explosion hit the Saratoga Hotel, in Havana, Cuba. A powerful explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak on Friday killed at least nine people and injured dozens when it ripped through the exterior walls of the luxury hotel in the heart of the Cuban capital.