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Octavio Dotel, a former MLB pitcher who played for 13 teams, died Tuesday after a roof collapsed at a nightclub while he was attending a concert in the Dominican Republic, according to local officials and the Dominican pro baseball league.

He was 51 years old.

The roof of the Jet Set club in Santo Domingo, the capital city, collapsed early Tuesday morning, killing at least 57 others and injuring 160, according to the Associated Press. 

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Daily Mail report second MLB player killed in the collaspe

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Former Major League Baseball star Tony Blanco has died after a nightclub ceiling collapsed on him, killing at least 45 people.

Blanco, 44, is the second ex-MLB player confirmed dead in the disaster at the Jet Set club in Santo Domingo at 12.44am local time on Tuesday.

He played for the Washington Nationals in 2005 before spending eight seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan.

Blanco's son, Tony Blanco Jr, 19, is a minor league player for the Bradenton Marauders after being signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2022.

 

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