Another victim of suffering in Santo Doming. A woman died for her life for 46 days in the hospital. The tragedy of the roof collapse shook the whole Dominican Republic.
The April roof collapse in the nightclub in the capital of the Dominican Republic required another victim. A 33-year-old woman succumbed to injuries in the hospital on Sunday after 46 days in the hospital. The total number of victims of the tragedy thus increased to 234, announced the local authorities. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
The roof in the popular nightclub Jet Set in Santo Domingo on April 8 in the early morning collapsed to hundreds of people who attended a concert of the popular singer of the genre Merengue Rubby Pérez. It was the most serious disaster in this Caribbean country in the last decades.
The victims were also known personalities
The authorities of the victims found under the ruins, but the number of dead increased after a while. Pérez, as well as several well -known personalities, including two former professional baseball players and a local politician, died in the tragedy.
The 33-year-old woman was treated in a hospital in Santa Doming with severe injuries. She spent 46 days in the intensive care unit because she suffered pelvic, spine and other parts of the upper body. According to AFP, two other misfortune participants are still hospitalized in other hospitals.
They filed actions to the owner
The investigation has not yet clarified the cause of the roof collapse. One of the owners of Jet Set Set to the local media said in April that the roof had leaked for years and the authorities never checked it. Indeed, the Dominican Republic has no law that requires privately owned buildings to be subjected to security checks.
The families of the victims of the tragedy filed more than 50 actions to the owners of the nightclub. Luis Abinader, President of the Dominican Republic, promised that the government will not interfere with the trial.
