A total of 184 people were killed in the Santo Dominga Night Club collapse in the Dominga Night Club in the Dominican Republic, while the rescuers have exhausted all their possibilities to seek survivors from the debris, AFP reported. On Tuesday, the celebration turned to chaos, with the singer Rubby Perez, who performed during the wrapped concert also among the dead.
The official statement read that “all reasonable possibilities of finding more survivors” were completed; However, the operation will focus on the restoration of bodies. Jose Luis Fota Herasme, head of the fire service, said “We will complete the rescue effort today”. More than 300 rescue workers were involved, with the assistance of sniffer dogs, spent two days combing hills of fallen bricks, cans and steel rods, supported by firefighters from Puerto Rico and Israel.
The surviving tells the collapse of a feeling like tsunami or earthquake ‘
The surviving Iris Pena informed the local television that she made for the door after “dirt began to fall like a dust” into her drink and then a stone fell and cracked the table where she sat, and added “the impact was as strong as if it were tsunami or earthquake.”
Family members and relatives of participants express pain
Antonio Hernandez, whose son was employed at the Set Set at the night club, informed AFP, his hopes of finding his son began to disappear when he watched numerous bodies, but no survivors that were acquired. “I don’t have a stomach yet to find out the worst,” he said.
Mercedes Lopez said she had a lot of pain when she waited for her son to learn. “We didn’t find him on the lists or in hospitals,” she lamented.
“I was in many hospitals and I didn’t find it,” said Deysi Suriel about her friend, 61 -year -old Milca Curiel, a resident in North Carolina, who was on vacation in the Dominican Republic.
Kimberly Jones, whose godfather, 45 -year -old artist Osiris Blanc and his friends were missing. “It was their favorite place, they went there almost every Monday,” she said, mentioning that the niece is also missing.
HIGHPILE COTALTIES
The former jug of Major League Baseball Octavio Totel, 51, who debuted for the New York Mets in 1999 and played until 2013 for more than a dozen teams, was declared dead, the authorities said. Other victims included Nelsy Cruz, the Governor of the Montecristi province and the Major League Nelson Cruz, Tony Enrique Blanco Cabrera.
Condolence poured
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed sadness on Wednesday and said there was at least one US citizen among the victims. “Our hearts go to families and loved ones with this devastating event,” Pope Francis said.
According to local media, there were 500 to 1,000 people in the club who had a capacity of 1700.
(With the entry from agencies)
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