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FROM
CUBA
Fire
damages seamen's hiring hall in Havana
HAVANA, December 16 (www.cubanet.org)
- A fire of unknown origin caused extensive
damage December 12 at the building housing
the offices of Agemarca, the Cuban government's
hiring office for merchant seamen.
The heaviest losses were concentrated in
the areas housing the personnel and passport
archives, which were reported to be gutted.
Eyewitnesses reported the fire started
on the third-floor office of the Agemarca
director, identified only as General Abascal,
who was out of the country at the time of
the fire. From there, fire spread quickly
through the wooden building.
Agemarca does all the paperwork for Cuban
merchant seamen working in either Cuban
or foreign ships.
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