The incident at the Jet Set disco occurred while the Rubby Pérez merenguero acted, whose body was recovered in the early hours of Wednesday, according to statements by the director of the COE, General Juan Manuel Méndez.
According to what was communicated, 145 people had been recovered alive.
Neither the authorities nor the administration of the disco, one of the main nightclubs in the country, have informed the exact number of people who were at the scene at the time of the accident, which has dismayed to the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican President, Luis Abinader, decreed three days of official mourning (April 8, 9 and 10), so these days the national flag will wave at half -mast in military enclosures and public buildings throughout the country.
The collapse of the roof of the Jet Set disco is the most serious event registered in discos and party rooms in the world, since 2013.
In Brazil, on January 27, 2013, 242 people died at the Kiss disco, mostly Brazilian students from the Federal University of Santa María, and more than 600 were injured.
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Dominican singer Rubby Pérez is one of the 113 deaths in one of the greatest tragedies in the Dominican Republic.
Collapse a roof in disco from the Dominican Republic and kill a hundred people
Hundreds of people were at the Jet Set club to see the concert of the Dominican Merengue singer, Rubby Pérez, who died in the incident.
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