Havana - (AFP) - The Cuban government announced Friday that it had put out the fire that raged for a week in an oil depot in western Cuba , killing two people, missing 14 others, and wounding 132 people.

And the Cuban presidency wrote on Twitter, "At seven o'clock in the morning, the fire was declared over." The presidency added that about sixty forensic experts entered the disaster area in an attempt to find the bodies of missing persons.

The fire, caused by a lightning strike, broke out on August 5 at the Matanzas oil depot, the largest in Cuba and located 100 km east of Havana.

Four tanks, which could contain up to 52 million liters of crude oil or diesel fuel, burned out of eight at the site.

Two firefighters died in the fire, which also injured 132 people, 23 of whom were still in hospital on Friday. Four of the injured are in critical condition.

It is expected that the loss of millions of liters of basic fuels to feed the country's power plants will exacerbate the difficult situation of electricity supply on the island.