Rescuers pulled a 21-year-old man out of the rubble of a collapsed building late on Monday in La Guaira, the hardest-hit state in earthquake-shattered Venezuela, where he had been trapped for 106 hours. The rescue operation lasted 43 hours, interim president Delcy Rodríguez said on social media, where she shared video of workers hoisting the man, Aaron Levi Cantillo, on to a stretcher.Onlookers erupted in cheers.The possibility of finding more survivors has continued to fuel rescuers digging through collapsed buildings in northern Venezuela, even as the search was growing increasingly desperate with every passing hour.The death toll from Wednesday’s 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude quakes rose to 1,719 people, with more than 5,000 injured and 15,800 displaced, the Venezuelan government said Monday. But the official numbers are probably a vast undercount. Doctors have said that in La Guaira officials have been processing about 750 bodies each day.A man looks over lists of patients outside of José María Vargas Hospital in La Guaira, Venezuela, on Monday. Photograph: Fabiola Ferrero/The New York Times
Dozens of emergency responders and volunteers search for survivors in several collapsed buildings in the Caribe neighborhood of La Guaira, Venezuela. Photograph: Adriana Loureiro Fernandez/The New York Times
