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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic \u2014 A merengue icon, a baseball star and others killed when a cement roof collapsed at a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic were buried Thursday, as authorities called off the search for bodies with the death toll at 221.<\/p>\n

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Mourners clad in black and white streamed into Santo Domingo’s National Theater, where the body of singer Rubby P\u00e9rez lay inside a closed coffin. P\u00e9rez had been performing on stage at the packed Jet Set club early Tuesday when dust began falling from the ceiling and, seconds later, the roof caved.<\/p>\n

President Luis Abinader and first lady Raquel Arbaje arrived at the theater and stood beside P\u00e9rez’s coffin for several minutes. Some mourners doubled over in tears as a recording of P\u00e9rez singing the national anthem played. Renowned Dominican musician Juan Luis Guerra was among those gathered to pay their respects.<\/p>\n