An Argentine football player lost his wife and two children in a devastating double earthquake in Venezuela that also destroyed the family’s home. Lucas Trejo, 38, who plays for Venezuelan second division team Club Sport Marítimo La Guaira, is reported to have spent three days searching through the rubble for his family, according to CNN Español. He was at a team training camp in Caracas when the incident took place and immediately rushed back to check on his wife Yanina Maranella, and children, Aarón and Ainhoa. On Sunday, Trejo’s club confirmed the deaths of his family members in an Instagram post. “Club Sport Marítimo de La Guaira profoundly laments the irreparable loss of the wife and sons of our player Lucas Trejo,” the team wrote. “[The deaths] occurred on June 24th during the earthquake that shook the entire country.”Lucas Trejo and his wife Yanina Maranella, and children, Aarón and Ainhoa. (Instagram/@lucastrejo_lt)Trejo told Noticias Telemundo that he was paying a game away from his home and ran back to check on his family, but found that their building had been destroyed. He said he searched through the rubble with his bare hands in desperation as his teammates made public appeals for more machinery to assist with the search. “What he found was a horrific scene,” his brother-in-law Ricardo Ardiles said. “He found absolutely nothing of what the building itself had been.” Ardiles said that Trejo had “hope” that his family weren’t in the rubble. After reports circulated of a child being found alive in the debris, he looked through hospitals in the hope that it may be his son. “I don’t know where my family is. I’m looking for them, but I don’t know,” he said at the time. But after days of looking, he discovered the heartbreaking news that his family were dead. Thousands remain missing in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake (Getty)Héctor Bello, another player from the same team, lost his wife, Andrea Bello, who died protecting their baby girl, their relative David Barreto told Noticias Telemundo.“When everything crumbled all she did was get on top of the baby,” he said. In a letter to his daughter on Instagram, Bello wrote: “Amidst all this pain, I know that if she had just a minute to say something to me, she’d tell me to protect you with my life—just as she did—and never to forget to buy you those bananas you love so much.”More than 1,700 people have been confirmed dead since the two quakes struck the Venezuelan capital of Caracas last week. Rescue efforts are now in their fifth day. The international community has rallied to help Venezuela deal with the disaster, with most help focused in La Guaira, the hardest-hit state.