Nelsey Cruz, the sister of one of baseball’s all-time great players, Nelson Cruz, and former Yankee Octavio Dotel died Tuesday at the popular Jet Set nightclub in the Dominican Republic.

While the country’s very popular merengue singer Rubby Perez was in the middle of a song, the roof and ceiling just collapsed. People almost instantly perished, including the the former great baseball star Dotel and Perez. 

In all, authorities say 221 people died and more than 200 were injured.

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