After a nightclub in the Dominican Republic collapsed, there were at least 124 people!
Dominican Merengue singer Rubby Perez, 69, took the stage at Jet Set Nightclub, 69, who collapsed shortly after midnight on Tuesday, April 8.
His manager has confirmed that he was one of the people killed, noting that Perez’s team is “waiting for the children to reach a funeral agreement.”
Retired Major League Baseball pitcher Octavio Dotel won the World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011, and he was also killed. Dotel, 51, was rescued but died of injuries while being taken to the hospital.
Tony Blanco, who once played for the Washington Nationals, tried to save his friend and former baseball player Esteban German from being killed when he was hit by debris. Blanco, 43, died of a miracle, but the 47-year-old German survived.
Local media reported that between 500 and 1,000 people at the club were 500 and 1,000 when the club was attacked at the early hours of 12.44 a.m. Tuesday.
The club has a capacity of 700 people sitting and about 1,000 people standing.
Rescuers competed earlier on Wednesday to find survivors and continued to urge search work to start more than 24 hours after the roof was struggling, which was more limited to the recovery of the body.
According to witnesses, Perez was out of power on the stage and his roof fell.
The singer’s daughter Zulinka told reporters she managed to escape after the roof collapsed, but he did not.
According to President Luis Abinader, the deceased was also among the deceased, Governor of Montechristi, Nelsy Cruz.
The president visited the scene and announced three days of national mourning.
The death toll began at the age of 15 and continued to rise throughout Tuesday. Juan Manuel Mendez, director of the Emergency Operations Center, said that by early Wednesday, the initial toll had reached 98.
He said earlier: “All authorities will work to restore or rescue these people as long as there is hope for life.”
Rescuers increased the death toll to 124 this afternoon, with the number expected to increase further.
Dotel’s brother Angel told the El Nuevo Diario newspaper that he died before being pulled down from the fragments.
Dominican TV Supercanal said first responders had heard screams from EX-MLB players.
