(11 Apr 2025)
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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – 11 April 2025
1. People waiting at the pathology institute for the delivery of bodies of relatives who died in the nightclub
2. Rosa Eridania Reyes, relative of a deceased nightclub guard, crying, hugging another relative
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rosa Eridania Reyes, relative of deceased:
“He (Yoni Humberto Garcia Abreu) worked as security at that nightclub and moved around frequently. Everyone knows that a security guard does not stay in one place. The owner of the nightclub and his bosses must be aware that he was there. No one has mentioned a single deceased employee from that nightclub. Do only celebrities have mourners? Employees have mourners, too; they are fathers and mothers of families as well."
4. Family crying while waiting
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rosa Eridania Reyes, relative of deceased:
“Nobody has become aware of the situation we are living in. Gentlemen, please, I want justice to be done. My daughters are going to look for a way for their father to get justice. My daughters are suffering for their father."
6. Various of families
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yerald López, relative of deceased:
“Only one relative has been handed over to us. We have three deceased relatives, but they have only given us the body of one. We are currently paying for a refrigerated room. Due to their negligence, they still haven’t provided us with the bodies of the others. We would like to have all three relatives together, but that is how the process works."
8. Various of flowers, candles, and posters of condolences for the victims on the sidewalk in front of the nightclub
9. Debris of the nightclub
STORYLINE:
Relatives continued to gather outside the Dominican Republic’s forensics institute on Friday to demand the release of their loved ones’ bodies.
Amid complaints of a foul odor, many wore face masks as they studied screens displaying the names of victims in different colors.
Names shown in black indicated that the bodies were ready for release but had not yet been claimed, while those in green indicate that relatives had identified the bodies.
Under a tarp, government officials met with family members, who presented official documents to retrieve the remains of their loved ones.
Exhausted, some people expressed frustration over the slow process, while others—like Rosa Eridania Reyes, who was waiting for the body of the father of her two children and a security guard at the Jet Set Disco—voiced anger, demanding accountability.
“Do only celebrities have mourners? Employees have mourners, too; they are fathers and mothers of families as well,” said Reyes.
The tragedy at the legendary Jet Set Nightclub in Santo Domingo has plunged the Dominican Republic into mourning.
Authorities say the disaster, which occurred early Tuesday, killed 221 people and injured more than 200 others.
Nearly two dozen people remain hospitalized, several in critical condition.
While authorities say it is still too early to determine the cause of the roof collapse, the government has formed a technical team to investigate.
By late Wednesday morning, the director of emergency operations announced that crews had completed their search for victims and potential survivors after working for 53 consecutive hours.
By Friday morning, the frantic activity seen around and inside the nightclub over the past three days had come to an end.
Images of the nightclub’s interior showed it cleared of debris from the collapsed roof, though some furniture remained eerily intact.
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