According to NBC News, it is not clear why the roof of Jetset Night Club, a well-known club in the National District, collapsed.
Local media reported that a disaster occurred during a performance by Meringue singer Ruby Perez.
With 121 ambulance transfers to various hospitals and search and rescue efforts are underway, Juan Manuel Mendes, head of the country’s emergency management business, said in an update on Instagram about 8am that the number of people hospitalized could potentially be transferred by ambulance at once.
“We’re still looking for people inside the tile rub. I think a lot of them are still alive. So the authorities with their team will not stop until they find the last person in that tile rub,” Mendes said in a video shared on the Dominican Republic’s National Police Instagram page.
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