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The collapse happened Tuesday at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo during a performance by merengue singer Rubby Pérez, whose body was found Wednesday morning.
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A roof collapse at a concert in a popular nightclub in the capital of the Dominican Republic has killed at least 221 people, authorities said on Thursday, with recovery efforts set to wrap up as fami...
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Wilfrido Vargas, the band leader who gave Pérez his big break in the early 1980s, called him “the best singer the genre has ever produced” upon learning of his bandmate’s death.
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