Update: an earlier version of this article indicated an ESPN report that former MLB launcher Octavio Dotel had survived the ceiling collapse in the Jet Set night club in Santiago. Tragic, follow -up report He revealed that Dotel died on his way to the hospital.
According to the reports, the former big leagues baseball and champion of the World Series Octavio Dotel was taken from the rubble of a Dominican nightclub collapsed on Tuesday.
TMZ Sports reports that rescuers found Dotel and rescued him.
The insider of MLB, Héctor Gómez, reports that Dotel was in the unfortunate night club jet in Santo Domingo on Monday night when the collapse occurred. Tragically, Gómez reported that Nelsy Cruz, the sister of former MLB toleter Nelson Cruz, was also in the nightclub and did not survive.
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“We assume that many of them are still alive, and that is why the authorities here will not give up until one person remains under those rubble,” said Juan Manuel Ménddez, director of the Emergency Operations Center, to The Associated Press.
Associated Press informs that at least 18 people have been killed, with approximately 120 wounds. The cause of collapse has not yet revealed the leg.
Dotel scored 59 victories and 109 saved through his 14 -year -old MLB career.
