Thursday, April 10, 2025 - At least 124 people have d!ed after a roof collapsed at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic, including a singer and two professional baseball players.
Renowned Dominican merengue singer Rubby Perez, 69, was on stage at the popular Jet Set nightclub when the roof collapsed shortly after midnight on Tuesday, April 8.
His manager has confirmed that he was among those killed,
noting that Perez's team is 'waiting for the children to reach an agreement for
the funeral'.
Retired Major League Baseball pitcher Octavio Dotel, who won a World Series in 2011 with the St Louis Cardinals, was also killed. Dotel, 51, was rescued alive but died of his injuries while being taken to hospital.
Tony Blanco, who used to play for the Washington
Nationals, was killed when he tried to save his friend and
former baseball player Esteban German from being hit by falling
debris. Blanco, 43, died but German, 47, miraculously survived.
There were between 500 and 1,000 people in the club when disaster struck at around 12.44am Tuesday, local media reports.
The club has a capacity for 700 people seated and about
1,000 people standing.
Rescuers raced to find survivors early on Wednesday and
continued to press on with the search effort, which more than 24 hours after
the roof caved in began to be limited more to recovering bodies.
Perez was on stage when there was a blackout and the roof
came crashing down, according to eyewitness reports.
The singer's daughter Zulinka told reporters she had managed
to escape after the roof collapsed, but he did not.
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