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AL JAZEERA: Officials in the Dominican Republic have raised the death toll from the catastrophic roof collapse at the Jet Set nightclub in capital Santo Domingo to 218, as hopes of finding survivors fade and the rescue operation turns to recovery.
Local media quoting the country’s emergency operations director, Juan Manuel Mendez, reported on Thursday that at least 218 people had died in the accident and 189 others were “rescued alive”. Mendez also stressed that it was a “preliminary figure”.
Mendez told a news conference that “until we have combed through everything, we are not going to abandon anyone”.
“We will be here until we have recovered everyone, dead or alive,” he said, adding that no survivors had been found under the rubble since Tuesday afternoon.
The legendary club was packed with musicians, professional athletes and government officials when dust began falling from the ceiling and into people’s drinks early on Tuesday. Minutes later, the roof collapsed.
As rescue efforts moved into the recovery phase, a growing number of friends and relatives gathered outside the Dominican Republic’s National Institute of Forensic Pathology, waiting for any news on the fate of their loved ones.
Officials had called for calm on Wednesday as they announced the names of 54 identified victims and notified that they had released 28 of the bodies to their families. However, 33 bodies were still unidentified, officials said late on Wednesday afternoon, adding that they did not yet have a full tally of all bodies recovered.
More than 20 of the estimated 150 people injured in the accident remain hospitalised, including at least eight in critical condition, officials said.
“A point in their favour is that they’re young,” said Dr Julio Landron, director general of the Dr Ney Arias Lora Trauma Hospital, where 21 victims are being treated. Five of the survivors are in critical condition with severe injuries including skull, femur and pelvis fractures.
“They spent hours, more than six, seven, eight hours under rubble with multiple fractures, multiple injuries, with bleeding related to being crushed,” he said.
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Sad so many innocent ppl died an missing this is a crash way to die could be a sign of destruction because of what the wicked girl did to the baby girl who only wanted to get home from school
Remember madam an gomar how God destroy it that’s what happening here blame that wicked monster who killed the baby
Wonder what’ really happened to the building or something else is beyound this collapse how long was it even built an the structure of the material for a whole building to collapse this isn’t normal