Venezuela's strongest quake in century kills 235, survivors fear death toll will rise

At least 235 people killed and 4,300 injured; many families trapped in collapsed buildings with limited rescue resources and ongoing humanitarian crisis.

On a Wednesday afternoon in Venezuela, as people gathered to watch a World Cup match, the earth delivered two successive blows within a single minute — a 7.2 and a 7.5 magnitude earthquake — the most powerful the country had endured in over a century. The coastal state of La Guaira bore the heaviest grief, its housing towers reduced to rubble, its streets left without water or light, its families calling out into the silence of collapsed concrete. At least 235 lives have been confirmed lost and more than 4,300 injured, though those who survived the shaking understand, with quiet dread, that th

Venezuela's strongest quake in century kills 235, survivors fear death toll will rise

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