11-Year-Old Boy Rescued From Rubble After Wednesday's Quakes in Venezuela
Colombian rescuers joined a multinational search as more than 2,000 workers raced to find survivors after the earthquakes.
- Colombian rescuers pulled an 11-year-old boy from rubble in Guaira on Saturday, offering a rare glimmer of hope amid Venezuela's earthquake devastation. Interim leader Delcy Rodriguez confirmed the rescue in Caraballeda, calling every life a "source of hope for Venezuela."
- National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez reported on Saturday that the two back-to-back earthquakes on Wednesday killed 1,430 people and injured 3,238. The critical 72-hour survival window for finding the living has already passed.
- More than 2,000 rescue workers from twenty-one countries have arrived to search collapsed buildings, while the UN migration agency determined that up to 6.76 million people could be affected and require emergency shelter, water, sanitation, and healthcare.
- With 50,000 people unaccounted for as of Saturday night, public outrage has mounted over the government response. One bereaved mother told AFP, "No help ever came" after her daughter and son-in-law died in their collapsed home in Guaira.
- Venezuela's fragile political transition six months after the ouster of Nicolas Maduro compounds the disaster, as the country already endures a decade of economic collapse and hollowed-out public services. Earthquakes of similar magnitude killed more than 200,000 in Haiti in 2010 and 73,000 in Kashmir in 2005.
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The balance sheet is growing daily in Venezuela and rises Sunday morning 28 June to 1,430 dead. But, as a source of hope, an 11-year-old boy was found and rescued. He was under the rubble, three meters underground, three days after the earthquakes. (International).
In Venezuela, another child has been pulled alive from under the rubble after the country was struck by two powerful earthquakes on Wednesday, reports interim President Delcy Rodriguez. She shared images of the rescue operation on social media.
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In Venezuela, another child has been pulled alive from under the rubble after the country was struck by two powerful earthquakes on Wednesday, reports interim President Delcy Rodriguez. She shared images of the rescue operation on social media.
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