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Image source, InstagramImage caption, <\/p>\nDestruction and overwhelm: Venezuela’s earthquakes in the words of localspublished at 08:02 BST<\/p>\n
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Andrea, wife of footballer H\u00e9ctor Bello. She died saving her child, Bello says<\/p>\n
It has been a harrowing few days for many across Venezuela as they grapple with loss following deadly earthquakes. Here’s how they describe what they’re going through: <\/p>\n
“I’ll tell her the story of how you saved her, my love – how you gave your own life for our daughter,” footballer H\u00e9ctor Bello writes on his Instagram. <\/a><\/p>\n He is writing about his wife who died in the earthquake, named as Andrea by Venezuelan news outlets. <\/p>\n Bello says she saved the life of their young daughter, dying in the process during two powerful quakes.<\/p>\n One woman cries<\/a> as she shows photos of her two daughters, who were in a shopping centre which lies in rubble next to her. <\/p>\n The women, aged 22 and 23, worked at the shopping centre and are now missing, she says. “I just want them back with me, they are all I have, please.” <\/p>\n “I thought I was going to die,” Ver\u00f3nica told BBC Mundo.<\/a> She was at home celebrating a national holiday when the quakes hit and says she thought her apartment walls would bury her. <\/p>\n