According to ICE Flight Monitor, an initiative of Human Rights First that tracks U.S. deportation flights, the aircraft carried 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children.
More than 100 Venezuelans deported from the United States just hours before powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela are reportedly missing after the hotel where they were being housed collapsed, leaving relatives desperately searching for information about their whereabouts.
According to AFP report, the deportees arrived on a flight from Miami on Wednesday before being transported to Hotel Santuario La Llanada in La Guaira, one of the areas hardest hit by the twin earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 in magnitude.
According to ICE Flight Monitor, an initiative of Human Rights First that tracks U.S. deportation flights, the aircraft carried 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children.
Survivors said the earthquakes struck while many deportees were inside the hotel awaiting onward transportation to their homes after undergoing medical examinations and receiving identification documents from Venezuelan authorities.
