I am unbearable for their relatives in the Dominican Republic Corps disaster

I am unbearable for their relatives in the Dominican Republic Corps disaster

Grant will

Mexico, Central America and Cuba correspondent

Reporting Santo Domingo
Getty Images crys out of night aircraft a day after her roof collapsed in Santo DomingoGety pictures

Maximo Peña has been coming to the Night Club every Monday over the past thirty years.

This week, enthusiastic to see a concert by the famous Dominican singer Robby Perez, took his wife and sister. Now the three of them are buried under the rubble of the collapsed disk, after the roof of the ceiling on the road through performance, leaving at least 184 dead.

“I have not heard any news about any of them,” says Shailin Benia, 17 -year -old Maximo’s daughter, sitting on a wall outside the destroyer.

“It was just the other night for them. Actually, my father called my mom to come too, but at the last minute I decided not to go. It was a convincing blessing.”

Shalyn Peña, 17, is photographed at a nightclub theater in Santo Domingo. She is waiting to hear news about her father and other family members who are missing.

Shailin Benia is among those who are waiting for news about their missing loved ones

Behind her talking, a team of rescue workers passes accurately through the rubble inside the building, and listens to the lowest voice of the survivors. I have joined them by Israeli and Mexican search teams and use advanced equipment to search for heat to try to locate anyone who is still alive.

Shailin told me that her cousin is one of the rescue workers, as they disagreement through the debris of her uncle, which brings peace of mind that relatives at home, and did everything in her power to try to track him.

Chilean says that endless uncertainty and waiting are unbearable.

“I feel the desire to go there and pay all the rocks aside and pull it. But as much as I want, I can’t really. I must sit here and wait for them.”

Shailin Benia Shailin Benia depicted in a personal photo with her father Maximo, who is missing after the roof of a nightclub collapsed in Santo Domingo. Chilean Benia

Shailin Benia depicted with her father Maximo

For their part, the authorities are doing their power to maintain the public’s flag, and to provide dark updates to the death toll, which increased steadily with every passage hour. At regular intervals, a team comes out of the site with a body covered with a stretch on a stretcher.

Sometimes, although it is rare now, someone is alive and enhances the hopes of relatives. It is still possible to reach the survivors of the emergency services in the debris.

“Nothing can be excluded,” said the director of the Emergency Operations Center, Juan Manuel Mendez. “We will go to every inch of the rubble here to give the families of those who have fallen into the disaster a kind of closure.”

The President of the Dominican Republic, Louis Abenader, announced three days of national mourning, a reflection of the tragedy group that is revealed on the site.

Among those who confirmed that they lost their lives in the accident were some well -known national figures, including Perez himself, two former players in the previous baseball game, Octavio Dutel, Tony Blanco, and a regional ruler. And their side, dozens of music fans and Pérez fans also died in collapse.

Getty Images This airspace displays rescue teams operating in a nightclub club a day after its roof collapsed in Santo Domingo on April 9, 2025. Gety pictures

More than 300 rescue workers spent two days combing the rubble in search of survivors

There has always been a possible opportunity to succeed, the authorities’ focus on the search and rescue process remains. However, the questions will eventually turn into the issue of collapse and government investigators will have to provide meaningful answers to families in time.

One theory already revolves outside the place. Many refer to the blame for a fire in a nightclub about two years ago. Some fear that the fire has weakened the site in a structural point of view, or that any reforms made were not enough or not to the code.

Antonio Espheella, the owner of a nightclub, delivered a video message on social media that express his condolences and those for “all the family of aircraft”, to the relatives of the victims.

He also insisted that he and his team collaborate “completely and transparently with the authorities” on the disaster.

Shalyn Peña heard about the fire in a nightclub and it is among those who believe it played a role. However, at the present time it has greater concerns. Despite the family’s efforts to protect them, her younger sisters discovered that their father and their mother were trapped under the rubble of other children at school.

She added that she was “terrified.”

It is the birthday of Shailin on Thursday, and it is a day that she usually celebrates alongside her father, the father’s wife and aunt.

Instead, you should carry it in the worst possible circumstances, pending the news of its missing loved ones, which occurred in the worst such tragedy in the history of her modern country.

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