DISASTER AFTERMATH:
Exasperation has boiled over in some places where residents claim that Venezuelan authorities have not done enough to rescue earthquake victims
AFP, LA GUAIRA, Venezuela
Emergency teams with rescue dogs were searching on Sunday for any remaining survivors of powerful twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela, where the death toll has surpassed 1,450 and about 200 building have completely collapsed. A man and his teen son were found alive under the rubble on Sunday by French and US rescue teams in Caraballeda, a town about 40km north of Caracas. The rescue offered a glimmer of hope in an ongoing tragedy that has shaken a country already mired in an economic crisis, but tens of thousands of people were still reported missing and the critical 72-hour window for rescuing trapped people following a natural disaster has passed. Millions more people were feared to lack sanitation and other basic needs after one of Latin America’s most devastating earthquake disasters.
Destroyed buildings in Caraballeda, Venezuela, are pictured from the air on Sunday.
