{"id":2002544,"date":"2023-08-16T14:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T18:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dominican-republic-explosion-death-toll-rises-to-25\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T18:16:10","slug":"dominican-republic-explosion-death-toll-rises-to-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dominican-republic-explosion-death-toll-rises-to-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Dominican Republic explosion climbs to 25."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdominican-republic-explosion-death-toll-rises-to-25%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2002544&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Firefighters put out a fire after a powerful \u200bexplosion in San\u200d Cristobal, Dominican Republic, Monday, Aug 14, 2023. The Monday afternoon explosion killed at least three people and injured \u200cmore \u200bthan 30 others, authorities said. (Jolivel Brito\/Diario Libre via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/abril-elfi\" target=\"_blank\">Abril Elfi<\/a><br \/>11:03 \u2064AM \u2013 Wednesday, August 16, \u20622023<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">death toll<\/a> from an explosion \u200cthat shook the town of San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic on Monday has \u200brisen to 25. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Delfin \u2064Antonio Rodriguez, a\u2063 civil defense official, reported \u200bthat the death toll\u2064 from the tragic \u2062explosion had risen from 11\u2064 to\u2063 25 as hundreds of firefighters \u2063continue\u200c to put out fires and search for victims. It\u200d is reported that one of the victims was \u200bas young as four-months-old. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">11 people died in explosion which \u2062rocked the small town of San Crist\u00f3bal, in the Dominican \u2062Republic Monday.<br \/>Officials identified the remains of 10 \u200dadults &#038; a 4-mth-old  baby\u200b warning &#8220;there are more corpses&#8221; likely to be\u200b found.<br \/>Not yet known what caused the blast in\u200c the town. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RTjlivoOrc\">pic.twitter.com\/RTjlivoOrc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rita Rosenfeld (@rheytah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rheytah\/status\/1691845994701283705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August \u200d16, \u20642023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The explosion happened on Monday in\u2063 the center of a commercial town. It set nine buildings on fire. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities are still investigating what could have started\u200c the explosion, however,\u200d they have reported that there were no tanks of any type in\u2063 the area. <\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez mentioned how the number\u2062 of missing people remains at 10 since forensic\u200c experts are still attempting \u2064to determine whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dominican-republic-explosion-death-toll-rises-to-25\/\" title=\"Death toll in Dominican Republic explosion climbs to 25.\">extra\u200b bodies discovered relate<\/a> to those missing. <\/p>\n<p>Dominican \u2064Republic President Luis Abinader visited the site of the explosion on \u200dTuesday \u200dand \u2063said that they \u201care\u200b doing all that\u200d is humanly possible to locate\u201d those missing.<\/p>\n<p>Worrying family members \u2062have \u200bbeen pacing in\u2063 front of hospitals and\u200b cemeteries, complaining\u200c that\u2062 no one has been giving them information.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials\u2064 out\u2064 of \u200dthe 59 \u200cpeople who were injured, 37 are still hospitalized. More than 30 ambulances and roughly 500 officials have responded to \u200dthe incident. <\/p>\n<p>Health officials are urging people to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tokyo-olympics-here-are-the-winnersand-the-losers\/\" title=\"Tokyo Olympics: Here Are The Winners\u2026And The Losers\">wear masks due<\/a> to the toxic smoke that is surrounding the town\u200d from the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking\u200c news blasts directly to your inbox for free. 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Firefighters successfully extinguished the fire caused by the powerful blast. The incident was captured by Jolivel Brito\/Diario Libre via AP. OAN&#8217;s Abril Elfi reported the update at 11:03 AM on Wednesday, August 16, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2196,"featured_media":2002545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}