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Cuba hotel blast toll rises to 42 — most hotel workers

Beatriz Cespedes shows a photo on her phone of her 27-year-old sister Shaidis Cobas who works as a waitress at the Hotel Saratoga and who is still unaccounted for, while she waits for news about her near the site of a deadly explosion that destroyed the five-star hotel in Old Havana, Cuba, Monday, May 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) A rescue worker recuperates after searching through the rubble of the destroyed five-star Hotel Saratoga days after a deadly explosion in Old Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. An apparent gas leak ignited on Friday, May 6. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Cuban Red Cross workers walk away from the destroyed five-star Hotel Saratoga after searching through the rubble days after a deadly explosion in Old Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. An apparent gas leak ignited on Friday, May 6. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Rescue workers search through rooms days after a deadly explosion destroyed the five-star Hotel Saratoga in Old Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. An apparent gas leak ignited on Friday, May 6. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) A rescue worker walks away from the destroyed five-star Hotel Saratoga after searching through the rubble days after a deadly explosion in Old Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. An apparent gas leak ignited on Friday, May 6. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Cuba hotel blast toll rises to 42 — most hotel workers