The tragedy has been primed with the Dominican Republic, a country shocked by the death of more than two hundred people, 218, according to the latest data, after the ROOF DERCUMBE of the well -known Jet Set disco at the time when The popular merengue singer Rubby Pérez acted.
The number of injured has also increased to 189 people according to the provisional balance contributed by the Emergency Operations Center (COE). This has been confirmed by its director Juan Manuel Méndez, who has also recognized that after 48 hours that the accident occurred, the authorities have ordered the reduction of emergency personnel because their presence is no longer so necessary.
According to the latest reports, emergency services have not rescued any person alive since the early hours of Tuesday. The Dominican authorities have announced the beginning of a new phase of recovery of corpses after already ruling out the possibility of finding survivors among the club’s debris.
The Executive, who has emphasized that the bodies have to recover “with the due respect and dignity that each victim deserves”, has emphasized that “this change responds exclusively to technical and protection criteria of lives” and that in no case entails that the case is closing or decreasing their attention. The Dominican Republic authorities have specified that, once this phase of bodily recovery is concluded, a third stage will start consisting of the investigation of the facts to clarify the causes of a tragedy for which the international community has already expressed its condolences to the Caribbean nation.
The tragedy took place at the Jet Set disco, located in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo, during a party in which the prominent singer, also deceased, and the authorities have not clarified how many people could be inside when the collapse occurred.
Dominican personalities among the deceased
Among the deceased is The governor of Monte Cristi, Nelsy Cruzwho has succumbed at the General Hospital of the Plaza de la Salud de Santo Domingo to the wounds he suffered in the disco. The Municipal City Council of Villa Vásquez, in Monte Cristi, has declared three days of mourning for his death. The death of Octavio Dotel, an outstanding experience of the United States Baseball League (MLB) from 1999 to 2013 to 2013.
Also Several executives of the Economic and Financial Company Popular Group of the Dominican Republic and some of their relatives They are among the deceased, as reported by the company on its Instagram profile.
The Dominican president, Luis Abinader, has lamented this “tragedy”, which from the government follows “minute by minute.” “All relief agencies have provided the necessary assistance and are working tirelessly on rescue work,” he said on social networks.
The president has moved to supervise the work to the scene, from where he has expressed his “faith in God” to be able to locate more survivors among the rubble. Several machines work in the area to remove some of the remains and verify if more buried bodies remain.
The collapse of the disco roof is so far the second most deadly of those that occurred in the Dominican Republic in the last 20 years. It has only been surpassed by a fire that occurred in March 2005 in the Higüey prison that left 136 fatalities.
Government condolences
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares has expressed his “condolences and solidarity” to the family and friends of the victims of the collapse of the roof of a disco in Santo Domingo.
Through a message on his social networks, José Manuel Albares was “deeply saddened by the tragedy that occurred in a disco in Santo Domingo”.
The government has also expressed in a statement its solidarity and condolences with the people and the Government of the Dominican Republic for the “tragic loss” of lives in the accident of the disco. “In these difficult times Spain accompanies families and loved ones of affected people,” said the Executive.
Shock in music for the death of Rubby Pérez
Great personalities of the Spanish -speaking music scene such as Alejandro Sanz or Julio Iglesias have wanted to present their respects both for the consecrated musician, known as the ‘King of Merengue’, as for the hundreds of deaths in the tragedy.
“My dear Dominican Republic. What happened in Jet Set, who has terribly affected so many people who went to see my dear Rubby Pérez, has taught us all how fragile life is. To all the families that are suffering for this circumstance, my prayers and my love. A hug of the soul,” Churches said in a post on his Instagram account.
