The death toll in Tuesday’s nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic kept steadily rising, as rescue workers using heavy machinery, drones and dogs worked into the night in a frantic quest to find survivors.

By late Tuesday, at least 89 people had died, after the roof suddenly caved in around 12:45 a.m. during a concert at Jet Set, a popular nightclub in Santo Domingo. Its Monday night dance party was a decades-old tradition frequented by a who’s who of Dominican society — many of whom were still trapped inside.

Among those either killed or injured during the merengue concert were a governor, a member of the Dominican Republic’s Congress and two former U.S. Major League Baseball players.

“There are not enough words to express the pain this event causes,” the club’s owner, Antonio Espaillat, said in a video posted on social media. “What happened has been devastating for everyone.”

Officials said they were focused on rescues and had not yet begun to investigate the cause of the tragedy. The building, a former movie theater, was at least 50 years old and had been the scene of a fire several years ago.

Authorities said it was unclear how many people were inside at the time of the collapse. Victims were still being pulled from the rubble, alive and dead.

By late Tuesday evening, the National Institute of Forensic Sciences had received 89 bodies, according to its director, Santos Jiménez. In a series of social media posts, officials said rescuers made at least 155 trips to local hospitals.

3 killed, 3 injured in Virginia shooting

Three people were killed and three others were injured in a shooting in northeastern Virginia Tuesday evening, authorities said.

At about 5:30 p.m., 911 calls came in about a shooting at a town house complex in Spotsylvania County, just outside Fredericksburg and about 65 miles southwest of Washington, said Maj. Elizabeth Scott, spokesperson for the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office.

The shooting may have been committed by more than one person, according to Scott. There were no immediate arrests or publicly released information about a possible motive.

The three injured people were taken to hospitals. Their conditions and other information about them was not immediately available.

N.C. deputies fatally shoot man in hospital

Deputies fatally shot a man inside a North Carolina hospital’s emergency room Tuesday after authorities said he pointed a gun at them.

Law enforcement officers arrived at Sentara Albemarle Medical Center in Elizabeth City at 1:18 a.m. in response to a call about a man who had entered the hospital’s emergency room with a handgun, according to the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office. The man had pointed his gun at several staff members, and a security guard tried to restrain him before law enforcement arrived, according to authorities.

Authorities found the suspect in the emergency triage room and three of the deputies fired at him after he pointed his weapon at them, officials said.

The man received medical treatment but was later pronounced dead at the scene.

Idaho officers shoot autistic boy with knife

Idaho police officers opened fire from behind a chain-link fence just seconds after exiting their patrol cars and critically wounded a teenage boy — described by his family as nonverbal, autistic and intellectually disabled — as he stepped toward them with a knife, video from a witness shows.

Victor Perez, 17, who also has cerebral palsy, remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday after having nine bullets removed from his body and having his leg amputated, Ana Vazquez, his aunt, told The Associated Press. Doctors were planning tests on his brain activity.

“We don’t know if he’s going to wake up,” she said.

The shooting in Pocatello on Saturday outraged the boy’s family and neighbors as well as viewers online who questioned why the officers opened fire within about 12 seconds of exiting their patrol cars while making no apparent effort to de-escalate the situation.

“The police barely spoke to anyone,” Vasquez said. “They just said get back and they just they shot to kill.”

“We understand the concern and emotion surrounding the officer-involved shooting that occurred,” Pocatello Police Chief Roger Schei said in a video statement posted to the department’s Facebook page Monday. “We are also aware of the video circulating online, which shows only one angle. The full picture requires careful review of all facts and evidence.”

Schei said he would not answer questions about the shooting because of an investigation being conducted by the East Idaho Critical Incident Task Force.

IMF $20B bailout for Argentina seen likely

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said it has reached a preliminary agreement with Argentina on a $20 billion bail

out, providing a welcome reprieve to President Javier Milei as he seeks to overturn the country’s old economic order.

As a staff-level agreement, the rescue package still requires final approval from the IMF’s executive board, which was expected to meet in the coming days.

Ukraine: Chinese men fighting for Russia

The Ukrainian military has captured two Chinese men fighting alongside the Russian army in the eastern Donetsk region and has information that “significantly more” are with Russian forces, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Tuesday.

There was no comment from China. Beijing is not known to have provided Russia with weapons or military expertise, and it was not clear whether the Chinese men had joined the fight on their own initiative. Russia allows foreigners to enlist in its military, as does Ukraine.

Zelenskyy said he asked his top diplomat “to immediately contact Beijing.” He said China would be the third country to offer military support to Russia after Iran, which has supplied attack drones, and North Korea, which has supplied soldiers, according to American and South Korean officials.

Florida executes convicted murderer

A Florida man convicted of killing a Miami Herald employee who was abducted on her lunch break was executed Tuesday evening.

Michael Tanzi was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison for the April 2000 strangling of Janet Acosta, a production worker at the South Florida paper. The victim was attacked in her van, beaten, robbed, driven to the Florida Keys and then strangled before her body was left on an island.

In a final statement, his voice barely audible, Tanzi said, “I want to apologize to the family” and then recited a verse from the Bible before the drugs began flowing.

He was the third person executed in Florida this year.

Strong earthquake strikes Taiwan

An earthquake shook Taiwan on Wednesday morning, setting off alarms in the capital, but no damage was immediately reported.

The Central Weather Administration measured the quake at 5.8 magnitude. The shaking in Taipei lasted only a few seconds.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude was 5.0 and the quake was centered 43 miles below the Earth’s surface. It was centered about 12 miles south-southeast of Yilan on the island’s northeast coast.

— From news services