Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills at least 27

Rescue workers are searching for survivors beneath the rubble of the nightclub in Santo Domingo.

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More than 150 people are injured and rescue workers are still attempting to free people from the rubble.

It is not yet clear what caused the incident, which happened in the early hours of Tuesday during a concert by the popular merengue singer Rubby Pérez, at the Jet Set discotheque in the capital, Santo Domingo.

Around 400 search and rescue workers have been deployed to the site.

The director of the Emergency Operations Centre (COE), Juan Manuel Méndez, said rescue workers were still looking for people under the debris.

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