Authorities reported nearly 2,600 deaths as of Thursday from the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck the country last week, most in coastal town of La Guaira, where scores of residential complexes were flattened.But officials have avoided estimating the number of missing, though the UN has put that figure at as many as 50,000. Many left homeless are also sleeping in the streets or in makeshift shelters set up in parks and public spaces.Nine days after one of Latin America’s worst earthquake disasters, rescue teams are beginning to wind down search operations for survivors, although many relatives still cling desperately to any sound from the rubble as a sign of life.In front of the Tahiti building in the Caraballeda sector of La Guaira, one rescuer reported hearing shouts from an adult in the early Friday morning hours.Reports also emerged that a 9-year-old boy had been found alive, but foreign rescuers told AFP there were no traces of any survivors.Outside the Tahiti, frustrations boiled over as families trying to recover bodies shouted at others wanting to clear the way for a potential rescue."Until I recover the bodies, I won't be at peace," said Jose Francisco Liendo, who was trying to dig out the bodies of his father and sister."Don't let the machines come and take them away like garbage."Stabilising presence