What do we know about the collapse of the Dominican Night Club and its victims

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Thereafter killed more than 200 people The roof of a popular jet set of nightclub This week, one of the most fragile tragedies of the Caribbean, which collapsed in the capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo.

Frames from the scene early on Tuesday morning showed how the festive event turned into a disaster. The beloved singer Mernge Ruby Perey first sees Serenad, accompanied by his orchestra.

After a moment, the club’s discos begin to swing before the roof suddenly collapses. Breaking screams and sounds can be heard for a few seconds before the video is cut.

The deadly incident took away the lives of several prominent Dominicans, including at least two former Baseball of the Higher League Players and Perez, sending shock waves across the country, when investigators are seemingly looking for its causes.

That’s what we know:

The collapse died at least 221 people, and dozens more were rescued from the rubble, Dominican officials said it had been announced on Thursday, that the crews had completed a day -survivor.

“All the reasonable search opportunities for more survivors”

Many were killed, injured in traumatic injuries of the head, said the Minister of Health of the Dominican Republic Viktor Atalla. “Most of the dead died instantly,” Atalla said, according to the local newspaper El Carbe. “Many sat; the ceiling fell on the head and chest.”

Search efforts also took on mental significance on rescuers. “You hear people who are trapped shouting for help – it’s a little difficult,” said CNN Daniel Ednia, a member of the Dominican Civil Protection Service.

At the press conference on Thursday, the director of the country’s emergency service cried when he described the scale of the tragedy.

“Today I am finishing the most difficult job that I have done in my 20 years of service,” – Juan Manuel Mendes, director of the Dominican Center for Emergency Situations.

A set of jerks is one of the loud platforms in the country, not far from the El Malcon’s occupied line in the heart of Santo Domingo. Her events on Monday night are one of his best visited.

It was believed that hundreds of people were in the club when the roof collapsed early in the morning on Tuesday.

Among those who survived are the Molley’s Havier, who said CNN that he heard a “terrible and huge sound” when the roof of the club played. He was with his mother and managed to escape with her.

“It was immediately,” Molley said about the collapse of the roof. “Everything has fallen. I mean, absolutely everything.”

The exact cause of the catastrophe is currently being investigated. The nightclub was built more than 50 years ago, according to local media reports and had the opportunity to accommodate up to 500 people.

The air frames now show the venue of a wide, open hole in the middle of a building where the audience would be located during the performance.

Jet Set Antonio Espaillat said that the club supports “full and transparent” cooperation with the power that is responsible for collapse.

“From the very beginning, we have fully and transparently cooperate with the authorities,” the Expilate said in a statement posted an hour after the accident on the club’s Instagram.

“We remain in constant communication with (emergency service), as searches and rescue efforts continue with emergency teams, volunteers and staff from more than 22 institutions.”

Speaking to the journalists on Thursday, Ramos Romb prosecutor stated that after the garbage is removed from the jet set “we will start expert reports in the soil zero disaster and contact the family members to come to the prosecutor’s office for restored things and other procedures.”

The club often attracts patrons of celebrities, and among the dead there are numerous noticeable figures in Dominican culture, sports and politics.

Perez, a 69-year-old singer who died during his speech, was known as “the loudest voice in meringue.” His daughter Zulinka also sang with him when the ceiling of the nightclub collapsed.

She told the CNN Univision branch that her father saved her life. After the collapse, Zulinka said she said in the rubble that she could not prove herself because she recovered after surgery.

Perez said to his daughter, “Okay, stay where your microphone is, and I will stay where mine,” Zulinka said.

If he didn’t comfort her: “I would not be here,” Zulinka narrated Univision.

The Purees dominance in the National Theater in Santo -Domingo shows the President of Dominican Luis Abinal on Thursday among Sorbots. The singer’s hat and sunglasses were placed on his box, as well as a wreath containing “Always with us”.

At least two former Baseball players of the Higher League have also died in a catastrophe. Octavio Dotel, who won the world series during the Pitching for Saint -Luis Cardinals in 2011, died on the way to the hospital.

According to the MLB commissioner, Robert Manfred and the Ministry of Sports of the Dominican Republic.

At least one US citizen and an unknown number of US residents were killed in the incident, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday in a statement about X.

According to President Dominican Luis Abinader, Nelsi Cruz, the governor of Monte -Cristi province, also died at the scene.

Almost immediately after the roof stuck, Cruz called the President Abinader to warn him about the tragedy even when she was trapped under the rubble, according to the first lady, Raibadge. “The President began to mobilize all organizations” to send help immediately after the call, she said.

On April 10, Abinal continued that it was initially a three -day mourning period for an additional three days.

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