People in Caracas and coastal towns describe powerful quakes that collapsed buildings and killed at least 164
As a double whammy of powerful earthquakes rattled Venezuela’s northern coast on Wednesday, residents of the capital, Caracas, scrambled out on to the streets from shuddering, fractured buildings.
“It was horrible. I felt like the house was moving to a different rhythm to the earth. I had to carry my mum out. She was paralysed by fear,” said 18-year-old Sebastian Rodríguez, whose family runs a shop in Centro Plaza, a brutalist commercial centre in the affluent neighbourhood of Los Palos Grandes.
Continue reading...This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by María de los Ángeles Graterol and Camille Rodríguez Montilla in Caracas, and Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro.
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