"Minutes later, she checked her Instagram account out of inertia and was puzzled by the dozens of Dominican influencers and singers posting mourning and crying emojis and images of a terrible structural collapse at one of the Dominican Republic's most famous nightclubs, Jet Set, on that same night of April 8. Where did Mommy go dancing last night? she remembers asking her aunt. Jet Set, Rubby Perez's show. Why? she replied. The following hours were a blur."
"They told me Mom had died of respiratory failure, after a large block fell from the ceiling, and from bleeding in her leg, she says. However, it wasn't until April 12 that they received the matriarch's coffin, in terrible condition. Before then, Estefany recounts, they had twice been given the wrong body. Six months after the accident, Catherine still grieves for not being able to attend her mother's funeral. She lived in Spain and couldn't make it in time."
On April 8 a ceiling at the Jet Set nightclub in the Dominican Republic collapsed during a show, causing multiple injuries and deaths. Nercida Anabel Melo Arias attended the show and did not return home. Her daughter and family searched through social media and emergency reports before learning of her death from respiratory failure and leg bleeding after a falling block. The family endured delays and mistakes in identification, receiving the coffin on April 12 after being twice given the wrong body. Nercida had supported six children as a masseuse; her death left them without their primary provider and deep emotional trauma.
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