The number of people who perished in a roof collapse at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic jumped to 218, officials said on Thursday, acknowledging that rescuers no longer had any hopes of finding anyone alive, APA reports, citing The New York Times.
The roof at one of the Dominican Republic’s most popular discos, Jet Set, caved in early Tuesday during a concert.
Emergency management officials have repeatedly refused to indicate how many people were inside the club, which had a capacity of 700 to 1,000 people and was particularly popular on Monday nights.
Juan Manuel Méndez, the director of the emergency operations center, said officials were “triangulating” the number of tickets sold with the number of people at the morgue and in local hospitals.
He said 189 people were rescued in the disaster. He has not said how many tickets were sold, and representatives of the nightclub have declined to answer questions.
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