{"id":660469,"date":"2026-06-27T03:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660469\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:32:10","slug":"venezuela-earthquakes-kill-920-people-as-families-desperate-for-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/660469\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela earthquakes kill 920 people as families desperate for news"},"content":{"rendered":"

One case that boosted morale across Venezuela is 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

“Come here, my child, come here,” a man says to the first child as he emerges alive from a gap between chunks of concrete.<\/p>\n

A girl then comes out, as the man asks her: “Are you siblings?”, to which she replies: “Yes, there are three of us.”<\/p>\n

Shortly afterwards, with a little more difficulty, the third sister emerges, sobbing and covered in dust from head to toe.<\/p>\n

Tributes are being paid to those who died. The wife of Venezuelan footballer H\u00e9ctor Bello was killed while saving their daughter<\/a>, according to his social media and local news.<\/p>\n

Bello wrote on Instagram that “his precious love”, named by Venezuelan news outlets as his wife Andrea, saved the life of their toddler during the quakes.<\/p>\n

“I’ll tell her the story of how you saved her, my love – 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,” Bello wrote in one post.<\/p>\n

One Portuguese national and two Brazilian citizens were also among those killed, their governments confirmed.<\/p>\n

Four Spanish nationals were also among the dead, with 106 still unaccounted for, Spanish media reported, citing its foreign ministry.<\/p>\n

Venezuela’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

The government said aftershocks had largely affected the country’s northern coastline, including La Guaira, Aragua, Carabobo and Falc\u00f3n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One case that boosted morale across Venezuela is the rescue in La Guaira of three young siblings, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-660469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}