Two powerful earthquakes have struck Venezuela, collapsing buildings in Caracas and elsewhere, killing at least 164 people, and wounding nearly 1,000 across the country.
While the epicentre was an area west of the capital, the tremors could be felt nearly 1,500 kilometres away in the Colombia capital, Bogota.
Wednesday evening’s 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes were among the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century.
Television broadcasts Thursday showed rescue workers using power tools to work their way into piles of rubble where buildings once stood.
Panicked residents of the capital were sent pouring into the streets, and after the quakes many people walked among the debris searching for the missing among collapsed buildings and toppled electric poles.
