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Baracoa was quickly evacuated

Cubasi.com Jan 13.- Quickness, discipline, and cooperation characterized the actions of about 30 thousand people evacuated today by the Municipal Defense Council (MDC) in Baracoa, before the possible tsunami danger.

The mobilization was declared, as a result of the earthquake of 7 degrees of magnitude, occurred at 16:53 hours Tuesday in the town of Carrefour, 15 km away from Port au Prince, the capital of the neighboring island of Haiti.

After the evacuation was indicated by the MDC, the neighbors of Baracoa seafront and the coastal areas: Cabacú, El Turey, and Mabujabo managed to move in less than an hour into the upper parts of the city, told ACN Eudis Romero Suarez, first secretary of the Communist Party in Baracoa.

Source: ACN

Cubasí Translation Staff

Taken from the web site (cubasi.com)

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