According to the newspaper Tribuna de La Habana, the child was walking alone through a flooded area, in the historic center of Havana, and did not notice the presence of a sewer that sucked him in due to the strong force of the water.

After the firefighters were notified, rescue and salvage work immediately began with the participation of forces from the Ministry of the Interior, trained to face this kind of contingency.

The first secretary of the Cuban Communist Party in Cuba’s capital, Liván Izquierdo Alonso; Havana Governor Yanet Hernández Pérez, and Lieutenant Colonel Luis Ernesto de la Paz, chief of the provincial Fire Department, as well as the highest authorities of the Habana Vieja municipality, also arrived at the area of the incident.

According to a report on national television, although the identity of the minor is not yet known, a father filed a report about the absence of his son at the police.

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