Baní.- Hundreds of baniles turned to the streets yesterday Thursday and this Friday to perform the last goodbye to nine of their fellow citizens who lost their lives under the rubble after the collapse of the roof of the Jet Set disco, which occurred early last Tuesday.
The tragedy has left 221 deaths, while dozens of injured remain hospitalized in public and private health centers, some in critical condition, according to medical sources.
Hundreds of banilejos pay tribute to victims of collapse at Jet Set disco
In the midst of crying, pain and collective solidarity, regardless of social or economic status, the funeral spaces were insufficient to house all the mourners who came to give condolences to the relatives. The people joined in a single feeling: the irreparable loss of their loved ones.
The Banilejas victims
According to official reports, the victims from Baní were: the businessman Luis Santana (known as Electrofácil mel) and his wife Dananllíris happy; The lawyer Socrates Peña Cabral; The social activist Ana Figuereo (The tato); Yoselin Santana, Ismael Díaz Troncoso and his wife Patricia Matos, Manuel de los Santos Díaz and the lawyer Juliana Altagracia Antuña Peguero
Ismael Díaz Troncoso was the son of the homonymous businessman, owner of several petroleum liquefied gas experience stations (LPG). For his part, Manuel de los Santos Díaz was the son of the businessman and former president of the Chamber of Commerce and Production of Baní, Ramón de los Santos.
The lawyer Socrates Peña Cabral was the son of the renowned professor Yoselin Cabral. It should be remembered that his father, of the same name, died in a car accident when Socrates was just a teenager, more than two decades ago.
Baní declares three days of municipal mourning in honor of the victims
The Municipal City Council of Baní, through resolution of the council of councilors, declared three days of municipal mourning from Wednesday 8 to Friday, April 11.
As part of the commemorative events, on the morning of this Friday a mass was held in the parish Our Lady of Rule, chaired by the bishop of the Diocese of Baní, Monsignor Faustino Burgos, in memory of the victims, especially of the dead baniles.
Civil authorities, entrepreneurs, merchants, students, professionals, young people and representatives of various organizations in the Peravia province participated in funeral honors, highlighting the social and human dimension of this tragedy.
Details of the funeral
At the afternoon of this Friday, the body of the businessman Luis Santana had not yet reached the funeral home, while his wife’s, Dananllíris Happy, was already rested there from the early hours of the afternoon.
The lawyer Peña Cabral was veiled in the National District and buried Thursday at the Puerta del Cielo cemetery, in the Santo Domingo province.
Open wounds in collective memory
This new tragedy has revived other painful episodes in the memory of the baniles, such as the death of a complete family and its driver, dragged by the waters in a tunnel on February 27 Avenue when returning from Las Américas airport.
The death of three young people within a Baní disco, and the tragic plane crash of September 11, 2011 in the United States, in which dozens of banilejos who came back to the country died. In his honor a monument was erected in a residential in the southern zone of the city.
