Commemorative monuments took place Thursday for a merengue star and others killed during a cement The roof collapsed in a popular nightclub In the Dominican Republic, when the number of deaths increased to 221 and the crews finished their search for a bodies.
People in mourning dressed in black and white are broadcast in the national theater of Santo Domingo, where the body of Rubby Perez was inside a closed coffin. Perez had played on stage at the Jet Set Club Packed Tuesday when Dust started falling from the ceiling and, a few seconds later, the roof collapsed.
President Luis Abinader and his wife Raquel Arbaje arrived at the theater and stood next to the Perez coffin for several minutes. Some mourning people have doubled in tears while a Perez recording singing the national anthem played.
The famous Dominican musician Juan Luis Guerra was among those gathered to pay tribute.
Perez, 69, had turned to music after a car accident left him unable to continue his dream of becoming a professional baseball player. He was known for his successes Volverethat he sang with the Wilfrido Vargas orchestra, and Buscando TUS BESOS As a solo artist.
Cause of the unclear collapse
A few houses in the memorial houses, the heavy equipment began to withdraw from the site where the jets held and the rescue teams packed their equipment.
Meanwhile, a group of prosecutors has arrived.
We still do not know what caused the roof collapse or when the building was inspected for the last time. The government said it would launch an in -depth investigation and that club owners have said they cooperate with the authorities.
The famous Dominican singer Rubby Perez was among the victims of a collapse of the nightclub roof commemorating Thursday, with family, friends and fans who made their last respect at the National Theater of Santo Domingo. Perez performed on stage at the Jet Set Club Tuesday when the cement roof collapsed, killing at least 200 people.
Juan Manuel Mendez, director of the Emergency Operations Center, broke down when he was addressed to journalists.
“Thank you, God, because today we have accomplished the most difficult task I had in 20 years,” he said, moving away the microphone from his face while he was crying. Other civil servants tapped him in the back as he continued, “please forgive me”, before passing the microphone to an army official.
Officials said 189 people had been saved from rubble. More than 200 were injured, of which 24 were still hospitalized, including eight in critical condition.
“If the trauma is too big, there is not much time” to save patients in this condition, said the Minister of Health, Victor Atallah. He and other doctors said that some of the injured had suffered fractures in the skull, femur and basin.
Frustrated families
Many people are looking forward to the news of their loved ones, more and more frustrated by the drop of information provided by hospitals and the country’s forensic institute.
At least 146 organizations were identified, authorities announced on Thursday.
Maria Luisa Taveras told the NOTTIAS SIN television station that she was looking for her sister.
“We went everywhere they told us,” she said, her voice breaks.
Taveras said that the family has spread, with a parent parked in each hospital and the National Institute of Medico-Legal Pathology. Dozens of people waited at the institute on Thursday, wearing facial masks and complaining of the smell when they demanded the release of their loved ones.
“The smell is unbearable,” said Wendy Sosa, who has been waiting since Wednesday morning the body of her cousin, Nilka Curiel Gonzalez, 61. SOSA told the Associated Press by phone that the situation was “chaotic” and that the officials had set up a refrigerated container to manage the volume of bodies delivered.
She cried by describing her cousin as graceful, authentic and “very empathetic”.
‘No words’
The victims identified so far include former players of the MLB Octavio Dotel and Tony Enrique Blanco Cabrera; And Nelsy Cruz, the governor of the north-west province of Montecristi, whose brother is seven times stars of the Major Baseball League Nelson Cruz.
Dotel will be buried Thursday in Santo Domingo. Hundreds of people attended its wake on Wednesday, including the David Ortiz renown temple, formerly Boston Red Sox. Ortiz said the number of people who attended the Dotel wake say a lot.
“He was a person that everyone loved,” said Ortiz to journalists. “It’s very hard, very hard, really.”
The MLB Pedro Martinez renowned temple attended another alarm clock on Thursday.
“There are no words to describe the pain we all feel,” said Martinez, adding that he knew more than 50 of those who died. “Life is only a breathing.”
A United Nations United Nations Head of United Nations; The saxophonist Luis Solis, who played on stage when the roof fell; The fashion designer based in New York, Martin Polanco; the son and daughter-in-law of the Minister of Public Works; the brother of the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Youth; And three employees of Grupo Popular, a financial services company, including the president of AFP Popular Bank and his wife.
More than 20 victims came from Haina, the hometown of Rubby Perez, just southwest of Santo Domingo.
Thursday, the governor organized a common wake, installing 10 stands for the coffins under a banner who said: “Haina farewell to his beloved children with huge sorrow.”
Among the mourning people were Juancho Guillen, who lost his wife three months ago and whose brother, sister and brother-in-law died at Jet Set.
“This family is in shock, is devastated,” he told Noticias Sin. “We are also practically dead.”
