AT least 12 people have died after a ceiling collapsed at a nightclub during a concert in the Dominican Republic.
Authorities scrambled to the scene to desperately carry out rescue efforts to save those still alive underneath the rubble in Jet Set nightclub, situated in the neighbourhood of El Portal.
The director of the Emergency Operations Center, Juan Manuel Méndez, confirmed the horror incident and said that a detailed report would be released later.
He told Diario Libre: “More than 56 ambulances , each carrying up to three patients, have been dispatched to different hospitals.
“This is a very important situation.”
So far the condition of the singer at the concert, Rubby Perez, has not been confirmed.
People have gathered outside the nightclub as family members and friends of those who attended the concert wait for information of their loved ones.
One person at the scene of the horror ceiling collapse told Diario Libre: “We don’t know anything, no one is answering their phones.”
He explained that his cousins and friends were at the concert but doesn’t know where they are.
Senior military chefs are at the scene as emergency services work to rescue concert-goers under the rubble.
Emergency operations chief Mendez also revealed that President Luis Abinader is aware of the harrowing situation and “has not slept”.
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