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		</div><p>A powerful explosion has damaged a hotel in the Cuban capital, with officials reporting that at least eight people have died.</p>
<p>No tourists were staying at the 96-room Hotel Saratoga because it was undergoing renovations, Havana governor Reinaldo Garcia Zapata told the Communist Party newspaper Granma.</p>
<p>The blast at the hotel, a 19th-century building in Old Havana, was apparently due to a gas leak, according to the Twitter account of the office of president Miguel Diaz-Canel, who went to the site.</p>
<p>It said search and rescue efforts were under way for people who might be trapped.</p>
<p>Photos published by government news media showed severe damage to the hotel, with clouds of dust billowing into the sky.</p>
<p>Photographer Michel Figueroa said he had been walking past the hotel when “the explosion threw me to the ground, and my head still hurts. Everything was very fast.”</p>
<p>Yazira de la Caridad, mother of two, said the explosion shook her home near the hotel. “The whole building moved. I thought it was an earthquake,” she said. “I’ve still got my heart in my hand.”</p>
<p>Mayiee Perez said she had gone to the scene after receiving a call from her husband, Daniel Serra, who works at a foreign exchange shop inside the hotel.</p>
<p>She said he told her “I am fine, I am fine, they got us out”, but had been unable to reach him since.</p>
<p>The website Cubadebate reported that a school next door had been evacuated.</p>
<p>The five-star, 96-room hotel in Old Havana has two bars, two restaurants and a rooftop pool, according to its website.</p>
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