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Three people killed in building collapse in Havana’s historic district

At least three people died when a residential building in Havana, Cuba, collapsed.

The building collapsed on Tuesday night and the rescue team found the body of a 79-year-old resident on Wednesday afternoon.

The two other people who got hurt were rescue workers. They were looking for people in the building when it collapsed again.

Havana has a lot of old houses that are in very bad condition and may be unsafe.
The housing minister of Cuba recently said that 850,000 homes on the island need to be fixed.

Old Havana is a favorite spot for tourists who take pictures of its old houses that used to be grand but are now falling apart.

However, for the people living there, not having enough appropriate housing results in many families being forced to live in buildings that are about to fall apart.

The government says that it cannot get building materials to do repairs because the United States has put an economic punishment on the island.

It said it would start a countrywide project to construct new buildings in 2018, but people who disagree with this claim that it focused more on building hotels to bring in tourists and make money instead of providing homes for the people who live there.

The recent building collapse in Havana is part of a series of accidents that have happened to the city’s homes.

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