According to official reports, the death toll from last week's explosion at a historic hotel in downtown Havana rose to 42 on Tuesday after two more bodies were found in ruins.

According to the Ministry of Public Health, 96 people were injured in the explosion at the five-star Hotel Saratoga, and 13 adults and five children remain hospitalized in six local hospitals.

Roberto Enriquez, a spokesman for the state-run hotel management company Gaviota, stated that rescue crews continued to comb through the rubble, searching for three reported missing individuals, two chambermaids, and a cook.

51 personnel were in the building at the time of the tragedy, according to Enriquez; 23 perished in the explosion, 22 have been released from the hospital, and three remain hospitalized.

Friday at noon, a tanker truck carrying approximately 10,000 liters of liquefied gas exploded, causing the disaster.

The Saratoga, a hotel located near the National Capitol, the seat of Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power, was set to reopen on Tuesday as part of the country's tourism recovery efforts.