In 2023 it occurred in San Cristóbal and La Vega, in 2024 in Santiago and, at the end of the first month of 2025 it was the turn of La Romana, where a construction was He collapsed with five people within which there are two confirmed deaths.
It is a two -story and media work that would serve for apartments. It collapsed close to the a on Friday afternoon, enling the families of two victims.
The authorities work to rescue one who was trapped and take out the body of another. Two were taken alive and are out of danger.
The five workers are national Haitian who worked since Monday in the work, whose owner was arrested until the cause of the incident is confirmed. And the mayor of the Roman, Eduardo Kery Metivierhe said they had notified him to stop the construction.
The event occurred on San Miguel street of the Villa Nazareth sector, between the busy Gregorio Luperón and Padre Abreu avenues in the municipality of La Romana. After 11:30 p.m., members of Civil Defense and Local Firefighters, San Pedro, The Seibothe National District and Punta Cana worked in the reinforcement of the structure to enter and take out the injured.
While the medical team had a conversation with him, he placed serum and encouraged him. Tents, drones, canvases, wood, lanterns, ambulances, a crane, cameras And all the tools Useful They were installed in the place.
Friends and families of those affected were still waiting for the rescue. A woman who identified as Joseline said she is a mother -in -law of one of them and everyone lived in the Caleta de The Roman.
Erwind Olivares, deputy director of the Emergency Operations Center (COE), informed that there is another rescue team available in case relieve. After they take out those affected, they will enter the canine unit to see if there are more people trapped.
Déjà vu
The falls of works in the process of construction and already Raised They are cases that are repeated in Dominican Republicopening the question of where are the authorities that validate whether the works comply with municipal standards and permits?
- Of the most recent cases, it was in November 2024, in Santiago, where a commercial square located in the South Circunvalación collapsed leaving several injured.
In January 2023, a furniture In La Vega leaving a victim fatal and four injured. The owner was subjected to justice.
In June of that year, in San Cristóbal, a four -story building collapsed after the last level of the last level was emptied. There were no fatal victims, but left damage to several housing close. Later, it was confirmed that the work had no permission from the town hall.
At that time, a commission from the Dominican College of Engineers, Architects and Surveyors (Codia) confirmed that the building did not have a design structural adequate and denounced that in the country there is one “epidemic“Of constructions with irregularities.
