New Delhi: For eight days, 43-year-old security guard Hernan Alberto Gil Flores lay trapped beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in Venezuela, unsure if he would survive. When rescuers finally reached him, his first request was heartbreaking: “He asked not to tell his wife that he was alive, just in case he wouldn’t make…
Emergency teams with rescue dogs were searching Sunday for any remaining survivors of powerful twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela, where the death toll has surpassed 1,450 and nearly 200 buildings have completely collapsed. A man and his teen son were found alive under the rubble Sunday by French and American rescue teams in Caraballeda, a…
Venezuela’s interim leader declared a state of emergency Wednesday as two massive earthquakes caused buildings in the capital to crumble and forced the closure of the country’s main airport. Delcy Rodriguez said 20 aftershocks had followed the earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, which struck the same area of Venezuela, according to the United States…