Rescuers in 'critical hours' to find survivors as death toll reaches 1,450
The president of Venezuela’s National Assembly has warned time is running out to rescue survivors trapped under the rubble.
The death toll from the earthquakes has risen to at least 1,450 people, with 3,150 injured and 12,721 others displaced, Jorge Rodríguez said yesterday in a televised address.
“We are in critical hours, in crucial hours to continue rescuing lives and to build camps where those people who have lost their homes, or who cannot return, for whatever reason, to their residences can stay,” Rodríguez said.