The search for victims ends in the collapse of the roof of the Republic, Dominican, who killed 221

Kelvin Espainal spent three days this week at Santo Domingo morgue.

His cousin, Yadhira Elaine Estévez Serrano, was among the 221 people who died when the ceiling collapsed early on Tuesday in a nightclub plane in the capital of the Dominican Republic. His cousin, who was like a sister, died the forty -fourth day of her birth.

Like dozens of other families, Mr. Esbal did not receive after his body for his loved ones to bury him.

“We have spent all day today, Tuesday, until 12 o’clock,” said Mr. Espeall on Thursday afternoon. “We were here all day Wednesday and today.”

On Thursday, the authorities in the Dominican Republic ended the search for besieged bodies in a plane night club, where a roof collapsed during a concert, killing 221 people. 189 additional people were saved from the rubble.

The Emergency Operations Center handed the site to the Public Prosecutor’s Office to capture the investigation. Now the difficult part comes: discovering what caused the ceiling of the 50 -year -old cinema theater in collapse, just as hundreds of people gathered at a concert.

The ceiling of the ceiling early on Tuesday at Jet Set, a disco known in Santo Domingo, who was the night of live music, was a decades -old tradition with politicians, athletes and business studies. A ruler died, as two of the baseball players did in the main league and a family of prominent bankers.

The body of the Mernggie singer who was performing, Rubby Pérez, It was withdrawn from the debris on Wednesday morning. Many of his fans were from his hometown, a city outside the capital, in his party in which one of the collective waking up was held at a local entertainment center.

Although officials have repeatedly refused the number of people inside the club, on Thursday morning they said that everyone had been calculated.

“These numbers are saddened by the country,” said Juan Manuel Mendes, director of the Emergency Operations Center. “The Dominican family barks.”

After several days of repeated media, day and night, Mr. Mendes stopped for about a minute and collapsed.

“Thank you, O Lord, because we have ended today to the most difficult task I went through in 20 years of the presidency of the Operations Center,” he said between tears. “I ask forgiveness, because every time the person of a missing family reported, we were full of impotence, knowing that the person was still besieged, and we could not reach him.”

Class méndez has strengthened, and the microphone has been transferred to others to end the press conference.

Officials offered to praise in time and comprehensive.

Jose Luis Menta Hirassay, who leads the city’s firefighting administration, said that some rescue workers were on the site for 53 hours in a row.

“I have never seen anything like that every time I was doing different types of rescue operations.” “Rescuers are satisfied with a good job, knowing that we were able to save 189 injured in record time. This is a blessing for rescue men.”

Víctor E. Atlhah, Minister of Health, confirmed that their relatives had not suffered from this.

Mr. Atala said: “I want to repeat that for the welfare of families that the time we spent here has spent the most effective and humanitarian way.” “Most of – and I say this from the heart – she died immediately.”

But family members said they faced a record of people trying to get the victims out of the morgue.

The Yeimy Aquino family, who gave birth to four children, was trying to confirm that her body was in the medical examiner office. Her husband, Juan Francisco Benia, described how Mrs. Akino was hanging with friends near the stage where Mr. Perez was performing.

Like others, he and his family were in the morgue for more than 24 hours.

The Forensic Medicine Institute, as the morgue officially called it, said that it had received 220 bodies on Thursday morning, 146 of which were identified. The agency said in a statement that the medical examiners were “working tirelessly” to perform the autopsy and comparing biometric data against the voter lists.

“We understand the state of emergency and we will use the resources needed to provide a timely response,” The office said.

The club representatives refused to specify the number of tickets that were sold to the ceremony on Monday evening. The nightclub reached 700 to 1000 people and was especially common on Monday nights.

Mr. Méndez said that officials have belked the number of tickets that were sold with the number of people in the morgue and local hospitals.

On Wednesday night, the authorities said that their rescuers had.I exhausted all reasonable possibilities“Anyone is alive, and the process has officially turned from research and rescue to the recovery of the bodies.

“This hurts me a lot,” said Minds.

In a brief telephone interview with the New York Times, Mr. Mendes said that anyone missing the missing person was missing.

Mr. Mendes said: “No one body remains there.” “We combed the entire area.”