The owner of a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic whose roof collapsed and killed 232 people this month said it had filtration problems for decades and had been repeatedly fixed with plasterboard.

Antonio Espaillat, the owner of the Dominican Republic nightclub where a roof collapse killed more than 200 people in April, has apologised for the incident.

Antonio Espaillat, the owner of a Dominican Republic nightclub, first learned of the collapse when his sister called him while trapped in the debris.