US among nations sending help to search for survivors on country’s north coast where dozen of buildings flattened
Rescue teams are racing to Venezuela’s shattered northern coast after a sucker punch of almost simultaneous earthquakes reduced dozens of buildings to rubble, with thousands feared to have been killed.
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said the Department of Defense would help search and rescue teams deploy to the affected region after Venezuela’s main gateway, the Simón Bolívar international airport, was badly damaged by 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude quakes, less than 40 seconds apart, late on Wednesday afternoon.
Continue reading...This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro Camille Rodríguez Montilla in La Guaira and María de los Ángeles Graterol in Caracas.
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