“If you are alive, make any noise”: Venezuela searches rubble on day four
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“If you are alive, make any noise”: Venezuela searches rubble on day four
CARACAS, Venezuela — You can hear backhoes digging through concrete and twisted metal, as rescue workers call out into the wreckage.
“We are the rescue team. If you are alive please make any noise.”
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A middle-aged man in a blue shirt looks on in desperation. He still has hope someone he knows on the sixth floor will be alive.
Across the street from another shattered building, Junior Laya and Jesus Gallardo sit on the shade, covered in dust.
“I have family members missing… my brother and some cousins,” Gallardo says. “We don’t know anything about them. We’ve been looking for them for four days.”
Analysis
It is now four days since powerful twin earthquakes left parts of Venezuela in ruins.
On Saturday, the government said the death toll had reached 1,430, with nearly 3,500 injured. Those figures are expected to rise. Authorities say thousands remain missing, as the critical window to find survivors continues to narrow.
Cargo planes carrying emergency aid for earthquake victims are now beginning to land in Venezuela, after the main airport in the capital Caracas partially reopened to relief flights.
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