The UN is continually monitoring the situation in the country, recently ravaged in its eastern tip by Hurricane Oscar and the currently struggling with grave failures of its national electric power grid, said Farhan Haq, spokesman for Secretary General António Guterres, in a press conference.

According to the information provided, the storm left at least six dead in Guantánamo province as well as 300 millimeters of rain, while causing floods, damaging infrastructure and blocking roads.

By Cuban authorities estimates the storm wreaked extensive havoc in the eastern provinces, particularly in the municipalities of Imías and San Antonio del Sur.

Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior are leading rescue operations in Guantánamo, where several areas still remain inaccessible.

All of Cuba in support of Guantánamo, was the appeal from Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in a message published on X.

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