{"id":55445,"date":"2026-06-27T10:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/venezuela-earthquakes-kill-920-people-as-families-desperate-for-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T10:19:17","slug":"venezuela-earthquakes-kill-920-people-as-families-desperate-for-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/venezuela-earthquakes-kill-920-people-as-families-desperate-for-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela earthquakes kill 920 people as families desperate for news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One case that boosted morale across Venezuela is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mundo\/articles\/c6219q730n0o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the rescue in La Guaira of three young siblings<\/a>, who emerged from the rubble covered in dust and debris, footage broadcast on state television showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Come here, my child, come here,&#8221; a man says to the first child as he emerges alive from a gap between chunks of concrete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A girl then comes out, as the man asks her: &#8220;Are you siblings?&#8221;, to which she replies: &#8220;Yes, there are three of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortly afterwards, with a little more difficulty, the third sister emerges, sobbing and covered in dust from head to toe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tributes are being paid to those who died. The wife of Venezuelan footballer H\u00e9ctor Bello was killed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0jydyz8z6jo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"> while saving their daughter<\/a>, according to his social media and local news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bello wrote on Instagram that &#8220;his precious love&#8221;, named by Venezuelan news outlets as his wife Andrea, saved the life of their toddler during the quakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell her the story of how you saved her, my love &#8211; how you gave your own life for our daughter, how you were a brave woman who never abandoned her, even as you took your last breaths,&#8221; Bello wrote in one post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One Portuguese national and two Brazilian citizens were also among those killed, their governments confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four Spanish nationals were also among the dead, with 106 still unaccounted for, Spanish media reported, citing its foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Venezuela&#8217;s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said multiple states had been affected by the twin quakes. In Caracas, the worst-hit areas were the neighbourhoods of Los Palos Grandes and Altamira.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government said aftershocks had largely affected the country&#8217;s northern coastline, including La Guaira, Aragua, Carabobo and Falc\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c39y79g7gzko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One case that boosted morale across Venezuela is the rescue in La Guaira of three young siblings, who emerged from the rubble covered in dust and debris, footage broadcast on state television showed. &#8220;Come here, my child, come here,&#8221; a man says to the first child as he emerges alive from a gap between chunks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55447,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55445\/revisions\/55447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}