A nightclub roof collapsed, killing 98 people, tragically resulting in the deaths of two former Major League Baseball players. According to BBC News, the roof of the Jet Set nightclub.
In Santo Domingo fell during a live performance by the famed merengue singer Rubby Pérez, resulting in over 150 injuries in addition to the deaths.
Hundreds of people were inside the venue when the tragedy occurred in the early hours of Tuesday. Rescue crews, including over 400 emergency personnel,
Have been searching for survivors buried under the debris around-the-clock. The director of the city’s Center of Emergency Operations, Juan Manuel Méndez, said,
“We assume that many of them are still alive, which is why the authorities here will not give up until not a single person remains under that rubble.”
