“Hope exists even in the most bleak situations. American search and rescue teams rescued a baby from the rubble after the earthquake in Venezuela,” the US State Department said on its social media pages.
The northeastern, densely populated region of the country it was hit by a double earthquake on June 24: first there was a 7.2 magnitude earthquake, then a 7.5 magnitude earthquake within a minute. Since then, according to the authorities, around 430 aftershocks have been detected. The number of victims exceeded 1,400, but around 50,000 people are still missing, and many multi-story buildings collapsed in the cities of La Guaira and Caracas. Among the tragedies there are also some miracles.
THE BBC reported that two 11-year-old boys were recently rescued from the collapsed buildings a few hours apart. One of them, Moises, was pulled from the rubble while covering his eyes to protect him from the sun. Hours later, Interim President Delcy Rodríguez announced that another 11-year-old boy had been rescued, according to the it’s on video he is seen being carried off a huge pile of rubble on a stretcher.
A few hours ago, Rodríguez also reported on another successful rescue: the video shows a young man being lowered from a ruined building on a stretcher. “After several hours of persistent teamwork, Belkys Barreto was rescued alive – if there is hope in the heart, nothing can stop it!” he wrote.
More than 90 hours have passed since the first earthquake, but the rescuers are not giving up hope. They hope that people may still be alive, especially if they can somehow get food and water under the rubble.
According to UNICEF, around 1.8 million Venezuelans, including 680,000 children, are in need of humanitarian aid after the double earthquake that struck the country’s coast. According to Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez, there are already 2,741 from 24 countries search and rescue people arrived, as well as 86 canine units. In the meantime, so many volunteered to help in the destroyed area that civilians had to be restricted, because in some places they were hindering the rescue.
