A New York City dealer and her husband were among at least 221 people who were killed on the ceiling of a nightmare in the Dominican Republic.
The Elivira Malkic and Hakim Boubazine was within the flying night group when its surface fell in the middle of the performance of the famous MoreGue singer Rubby Perez on Tuesday, which led to a 53 -hour search and rescue mission in the Santo Domingo capital.
Malikic, the mother of three children, was the co -owner of the Elity Art Gallery exhibition in Avenue the fifth inside the L'Apartment Hair Hawn, and formerly Boubazine was the operations in Altice USA.
The exhibition worker, Iris Hernandez, 30, told the Post newspaper that she was shocked when she learned of Malik and her husband's death in the tragedy of the aircraft, with the exhibition owner Tiffany Calvic flying to the Dominican Republic after hearing the news.
Malikic had told her friend early that she would be on a plane with her husband to celebrate the birthday of someone at the Perez party.
“When I woke up, she saw it to the news,” Hernandez said about the reaction of Calvic.
The employee added: “I knew that she was in a set of nightclubs plane, and when she did not hear about it, I knew already,” the employee added.
Hernandez Malik described as a specific “amazing woman” keen on the works that I love working with artists and their work.
“She had great work ethics, something she looked at and [am] “She was inspired by that, she always had great inputs and positive crew, a beautiful woman,” she said.
Malkic also worked in Santo Domingo as an independent cosmetic consultant between 2015 and 2018, according to the LinkedIn page.
One of the Malkic clients, who goes to the Instagram handle, chaos, confirmed the death of Malkic and Boubazine on social media.
The artist wrote: “I am destroyed and shocked. I have no words for this. It was like a family for me.” She was very small and had a lot to do on this land.
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“I have been destroyed. I cannot stop crying. I believed in me and my work more than anyone else. I took the opportunity and gave me a show in New York when I was just an artist who showed his work on Instagram. I am a debtor to Lalvira and Tivani a lot.”
“I have no doubt that you are there in the sky. I was an angel and worked as a person you met at all.”
Altice Communications Giant also confirmed the death of the couple with a statement regarding the former operations manager.
The company said in a statement, “We are saddened by the families of all those who lost this devastating event, and our ideas and our prayers come out to our loved ones, the Pobazin family,” the company said in a statement.
Malkic and Boubazin were among the 221 victims who had been withdrawn from the rubble since Tuesday, when the search and rescue efforts rescued 189 other people trapped under the collapsed ceiling.
The investigation of the collapse of the ceiling of the nightclub continued, as the owner Antonio Esbayat returned to Santo Domingo “to cooperate with the disaster.
