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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – two former small leagues Baseball stars. Iconic singer. Renomated fashion designer. A prominent banking family. Governor. Young professionals.

Were among more than 124 people killed on Tuesday when what started as a celebrity-night converted into one of Deadlist Dominican Republic events. Roof busy Jet set Nightclub He crashed, suffocating the entire nation in grief.

In this Caribbean capital, they felt so much so that local journalists smashed as they recounted what was taking place and residents are trying to deal with how it could happen – and take life Dominican ones.

The secret of death is likely to reach even greater as countless other remains on Wednesday, and search crews continue to sort through ruins and forensic experts who try to identify victims.

“We have never seen an event like this,” Carolina Lorenzo said, a Dominican journalist covering Tragedy, said in Spanish. “Let me see so many dead people drawn and families waiting for information, it’s desperate.”

Hundreds went to the nightclub to enjoy the appearance of the renowned Mengue Singer Rubby Pérez. He was among the killed – the expansion of the collective sadness of the nation outside the borders of the island.

Lorenzo said Pérez sang on her wedding. It was now at the place of traffic reporting on his death and the death of other famous Dominicanians, including the former MLB players Octavio brought and Tony Cabrera.

Lorenzo described Pérez as the best musician for Merengue in the Dominican Republic. Her sons, who collect baseball cards, are sad for death by two of their MLB idols, she told NBC news.

In the middle of grief, there are many questions and a sense of disbelief on the huge of the tragedy.

‘I still don’t know anything’

Casado Wilson waited all night outside the destroyed news club for three of his missing loved ones: his cousin, his nephew and nephew.

Casado last saw them on the weekend when his cousin arrived from North Carolina only to see Pérez in the concert. Casado said that three were asked the videos of the events on social media.

With the car of his niece, he was still parked in front of the club, the Casado said, his family checked all hospitals in the area and further “they can not be more. We can be in the hospital that they can see them again.”

Hundreds of people gathered outside the country’s pathology institute, appearing with photographs of their missing loved ones who saw whether they were among the dead victims identified.

As more bodies were recovered by ruins, officials were going out on solving troubled families, shouting the names of newlyiced victims. Shouts and screams would erupt from heart relatives.

Luis Alberto Martínez waited there to hear the news about his sister and niece, convinced that he was probably “already lost.”

“It was an extremely terrible process, extremely chaotic,” Martínez said News Telemundo. “We’ve already suffered. It is painful. I have no words.”

‘He died what did what he loved the most’

Famous for that “Merengue is the DNA of the Homeland“Pérez” was not just a singer, “his brother, Rubby Micaís Pérez Díaz, Told the news Telemundo. “He knew to cross the music.”

Pérez cuts for the preservation of the genre of tropical music that arose in the Dominican Republic; Merengue considers many pillars of dominican cultural identity.

Although “what we have in Santo Domingou is very painful,” said Pérez Díaz, his brother sang to his last breath and “died most loved.”

Baseball Grow League paid tribute to domino and Cabrera on social media and On American baseball stadiums. He expressed his condolences to many years of MLB Slugger Nelson Cruz, who lost his nelsy cruz’s sister in the disaster.

Dozens of people appeared in the governor’s office in Montecrista Province while waiting Cruz’s remains on Tuesday night in front of Funeral ceremony In her honor, local media reported.

Nelson Cruz said in statement that “hereditary services and the love of the sister will live forever in our hearts.”

Other high-profiled people who have died include Dominican fashion designer Martín Polanco and family members of the Grupo popular, one of the country’s largest banking companies. Company announced death Eduardo Grullón, president of his AFP popular branch; His wife, Jhoanna Rodríguez de Grullón; And Aleksandra Grullón, his sister.

The company also announced the death of Aleksandar Grullón husband, Eduardo Guarionex Estrella Cruz, who is the son of the Minister of Public Works in the country; and the bank employee, Stephanie Avendaño Patricio.

“We have joined national grief and feelings of all Dominican societies at the moment,” Grupo popular said in a statement.

The tragedy echoed out of the country’s bounds, because the news came out Dominicanians live abroad were among those who died.

In New York, a city with the largest Dominican population in the United States, hundreds of people gathered in Washington Square Park to mourn the lost lives. I in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Community members gathered outside the restaurant The owner of the Dominican company Fray Luis Rosario, who was killed.

“I don’t remember something that happens in the history of the earth,” Santiago Matías, Rosario relative said NBC Boston.

Rescue efforts will remain priority, the authorities said, and the cause of the collapse remains unknown.

Nicole Acevedo reported New York and Erin McLaughlin and Carolina Gonzalez from Santo Domingo.