A plane of a nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, hit a fatal roof collapse

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – The authorities said that at least 27 people died and more than 100 people were treated due to injuries after a ceiling collapsed in a nightclub in the capital of the Dominican Republic early on Tuesday. Juan Manuel Mendes, director of the Emergency Operations Center, said that the teams were looking for potential survivors in the rubble at Jet Cit in Santo Domingo.

“We assume that many of them are still alive, and for this reason the authorities will not surrender here so that one person does not remain under these rubble,” he said.

He said that the teams are still working to determine the total number of people who were present at the scene at the time of the accident.

Officials said that among the injured, Merringo singer Ruby Perez, who was performing when the ceiling collapsed.

President Louis Abyader wrote on social media that all rescue agencies “work tireless” to help the affected.

“We regret the tragedy that took place in a group nightclub.

In one of the hospitals where the injured were taken, an official was out of a loud reading of the names of the survivors when a crowd gathered around them and shouted the names of their loved ones.

It was not immediately clearly the cause of the ceiling collapse.