On Thursday, two hundred residents whose lives were abruptly cut short when a nightclub’s ceiling collapsed and hundreds of people were inside a sports court in the Dominican city of Haina were transformed into a wooden chapel.
Coffins were carried onto the judge and placed on tables lined with white linen at once.
The victims ‘ families watched attentively as the caskets were topped with photos and their personal belongings during subsequent, brief ceremonies, each with two victims per turn.
Two weeks after the horror that claimed more than 200 lives, many of the grieving broke down in agony.
The unfortunate ones were unable to avoid when Rubby Perez, a well-known salsa singer, collapsed the roof of the Jet Set club, a 50-year-old tradition in Santo Domingo, while performing to a adoring crowd on Tuesday morning.
Perez, 69, and retired Major League Baseball person Tony Blanco, both of whom were Haina-born, were among the deceased.
At the meeting in Haina on Thursday, which was attended by thousands, Blanco was one of the patients who were memorialized.
Prior to the service, President Luis Abinader received a farewell in a private meeting held at the National Theater in Santo Domingo’s capital earlier that day.
-” Immense discomfort”-
A big banner with the names and photos of the deceased was displayed at the basketball court access. A local sign with the phrase” With immense problems, Haina bids farewell to her favorite kids” was displayed with a picture of a peace went.
Cheap chairs were crowded with onlookers to discuss in the group’s loss.
Santo Jose German, who lost four friends, was one of the onlookers.
He described his emotional state as” A anguish that doesn’t subside.”
” I didn’t want to believe it was true, but it is,” he said. Life is lost in a second, he claimed.
Monks pronounced gifts during the support while playing the bugle trumpets of music teacher Felix Silvestre while waving perfume for two coffins at once.
He had to stop crying many times.
Because there were many people I’ve lost friends with since I was a child, I’ve had many people there, he said, “you have to get power where there is none.”
In honor of his late friends, he performed the song” Cuando un amigo se va” ( When a friend leaves ) without a lot of interruptions.
” It’s difficult, but it must be done.”
Fernando Nina, the 59-year-old chairman of the neighborhood institution, paid a visit to the ceremony to say goodbye to friends.
” This devastation really touched sensitive materials of our municipality,” he said, “describing it as a difficult blow would be an insult.”
” It’s extraordinary how three, four, or even five members of a second home pass away. In the community, Nina observed a” sympathia and a lot of pain” and an atmosphere of grief.
