A roof collapsed at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic, killing at least 15 people.
Many more people are hurt, and rescue teams are currently working to extricate them from the rubble.
It is unclear what caused the incident, which occurred early Tuesday morning during a concert by popular merengue artist Rubby Pérez at the Jet Set discotheque in Santo Domingo.
The president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, has offered his sympathy to the afflicted families.
The head of the Emergency Operations Centre (COE), Juan Manuel Méndez, stated that rescue teams were still searching for survivors beneath the wreckage.
He claimed that ambulances had made over 100 journeys to the area’s hospitals, sometimes transporting multiple patients. Officials are currently determining the total number of persons injured.
The preliminary number of those dead is 15.
Mr Méndez expressed hope that many of those buried under the fallen roof were still alive.
Jet Set is a prominent nightclub in the capital that features dance music concerts every Monday evening.
Video footage purportedly recorded inside the club shows customers seated at tables in front of the stage and dancing to the music in the rear while Rubby Pérez performs.
A separate mobile phone clip uploaded on social media shows a man standing next to the stage claiming “something fell from the ceiling” while pointing to the roof.
In the footage, singer Rubby Pérez also seems to be looking towards the area pointed out by the man.
Less than 30 seconds later, a noise is heard, and the recording goes black, with a woman shouting, “Dad, what’s happened to you?”
“I thought it was an earthquake,” the musician said.
