Venezuela Earthquake: Death Toll Shoots to 589, Several Countries to the Rescue
Rescue teams are searching for more than 49,000 missing people as 2,980 others were injured and 250 buildings were damaged or destroyed, officials said.
- On Wednesday, magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 tremors struck 160km west of Caracas, Venezuela. Interim President Delcy Rodriguez updated the death toll to 589 by Friday morning, with 2,980 injured.
- Decades of economic and political turmoil have left Venezuela's infrastructure severely eroded, with thousands now homeless in fragile hillside slums known as 'barrios'. The disaster compounds existing humanitarian crises.
- The search continues in Caracas and the coastal state of La Guaira, where a website shared by opposition leaders lists 49,500 people as unaccounted for. The US Geological Survey predicts more than 10,000 deaths.
- President Donald Trump said the US is "ready, willing and able to help," and Washington eased sanctions to facilitate humanitarian aid. International rescue teams are arriving to assist with logistics.
- UN aid chief Tom Fletcher stressed that a "massive collective effort" is required to support eight million people who already needed humanitarian assistance before the earthquakes struck.
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The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, has raised to 920 the number of deaths and up to 3,360 the number of wounded by the double earthquake that struck the north of the country on Wednesday. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, already counts five Spaniards dead and 119 not located. In addition, he has reported that 14 people have been found alive trapped under the rubble of the collapsed building…
The two earthquakes killed 589 people and injured 2,980, while around 50,000 people are listed as missing, but it is feared that these figures are far from final.
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