The nightclub collapsed on Tuesday and for two days families have gathered outside the wreckage of the Jet Set club in Santo Domingo, anxious for information about their missing relatives and sharing photos with police. “We are not going to abandon nobody,“ Juan Manuel Mendez, head of the country’s emergency operations center, said at a press conference.
“In the coming hours there will be a transition from a search and rescue phase to the recovery of the bodies phase,“ presidential spokesperson Homero Figueroa said in a statement.
“Unfortunately I don’t have any information about where they are,“ he said. “My 15 year-old son is devastated, and the little one who is 9 remains calm because we’ve told him that his mom is at work.”
Earlier on Wednesday authorities reported that 155 people had been rescued from the rubble and transferred to hospitals. The exact number of people inside the club at the time of the collapse remained unclear.
The tragedy unfolded during a concert by popular Dominican singer Rubby Perez. The event, which had drawn politicians, athletes and other prominent figures, turned into a nightmare after midnight as the roof suddenly collapsed.
The families of the victims whose bodies have already been recovered have begun to hold their funerals.
“We are left to mourn her and the other victims,“ Abinader said during the service.
The son of the public works and communications minister also died in the disaster.
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