The popular Dominican merenguero Rubby Pérez, who was singing when the roof of a disco collapsed in Santo Domingo This morning, with the provisional balance of 27 dead, it was located “because she began to sing” and would be well, according to his daughter, information not confirmed by official sources.
“They tell me that he is fine, someone said they found him because he began to sing to find him,” said Zulinka Pérez In statements to the congregated press in the place of the tragedy.
Pérez explained that her husband and she are fine, but “A musician died, another is wrong.”
About the moment of tragedy explained that she was on stage and exchanged microphones with her father: “If I had been in my dad’s microphone I would not have been here. ”
“Everything collapsed, it became dark, My husband put on me, and told me ‘Mommy salt, in case everything collapses, and the boy did not stay alone’ ”he said.
Also the manager of Rubby Pérez, Fernando Soto confirmed to a local newspaper, Diario Libre, that the artist was located alive, although it is not known what his status is.
Those killed by the collapse of the roof of the Jet Set disco in Santo Domingowith capacity for more than 1,000 people, they rise to 27, while the rescue work of the trapped among the rubble continues, according to the latest data provided by the Emergency Operations Center (COE).
In addition, the director of the COEgeneral Juan Manuel MéndezHe indicated that 134 transfers to health centers have been carried out, with a total of 150 to 160 patients.
Other people went to hospitals by their own means and others managed to leave healthy and You save the discowhere relatives of the people who were inside at the time of the event are swallowed trying to know the destiny of their relatives.
Dozens of ambulances and units of the COE, of the National Police, of the National System of A have been sent to the placeEmergency and Security Tent 9-1-1Firefighters, Civil Defense and the Ministry of Defense.
According to the director of COEin the rescue work more than 200 lifeguards work, which, the authorities say, will continue with their work until they find all the people affected by the collapse of the roof in the disco, Very popular for its Monday parties and the one who attend local personalities.