(Update the number of victims and transfer of injured)
Santo Domingo, Apr 8 (EFE) .- The dead in the accident occurred this morning when the ceiling of a well-known disco in Santo Domingo already rises to 58, according to the most recent provisional figures provided on Tuesday by the Emergency Operations Center (COE).
In addition, 155 transfers to health centers have been produced so far and in the ambulances they put one or more people, so the number of injured is not known at the moment.
The rescue work between the debris continues at the Jet Set disco and, according to the director of the COE, Juan Manuel Méndez, while the relatives continue to inform that they have missing relatives.
A twenty state institutions, under the coordination of the COE, work in an articulated and shifts, using heavy machinery, rescue technology and highly trained personnel, these tasks have added a specialized canine unit to facilitate the search in areas of difficult access.
A telephone line for updated information about people referring to health centers has been enabled.
Meanwhile, the relatives of those who were at the scene of the incident are in the environment of the disco waiting for news of their relatives, at the gates of the health centers and before the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF).
On the other hand, citizens are going to different places enabled to donate blood after an accident by which the Dominican president, Luis Abinader, has decreed three days of official mourning.
The collapse of the roof of the well -known Jet Set disco, where rescue work continues, occurred around 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT) while the popular merenguero Rubby Pérez was acting, who according to his daughter has been located alive. EFE
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