{"id":662848,"date":"2026-06-28T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662848\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:05:08","slug":"venezuela-earthquake-two-boys-rescued-from-rubble-after-days-of-being-trapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/662848\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela earthquake: Two boys rescued from rubble after days of being trapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Columbia&#8217;s National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) said Moises was buried under about 3m (9.8ft) of debris, and the rescue team spent six hours conducting &#8220;high-precision work&#8221; on Saturday to reach him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reuters reported that a rescuer was overheard on a walkie-talkie saying the young boy was found near his sister and mother, who had both died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hours later, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez posted a video on X, purportedly showing the rescue of the second 11-year-old boy in the town of Caraballeda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In these hours, every life is hope for Venezuela,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officials said the coastal region of La Guaira, where Caraballeda is located, has been hit the hardest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rescuers&#8217; efforts have been hampered by aftershocks, which are in turn terrifying residents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To be honest, it makes you feel kind of nervous. Any little noise&#8230; horrible,&#8221; Jes\u00fas Andueza, a 64-year-old bus driver told BBC Mundo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of people are living in their cars or camping at places like the airport and golf course, away from buildings that could collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The golf course in Caraballeda has become an epicentre for the emergency response. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its green lawn, which used to be perfectly manicured, is now a makeshift hospital and donation centre, where residents who have lost everything are sifting through piles of donated clothing and boxes of humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In another part of the golf course, next to a small lagoon, a strip of land has been set up as a landing pad for helicopters arriving with supplies and emergency personnel from within Venezuela and abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the area surrounding the golf course, Caraballeda&#8217;s streets \u2013 cracked and covered in rubble \u2013 are marked by dust and silence, interrupted only by heavy machinery and those searching among the remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Columbia&#8217;s National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) said Moises was buried under about 3m (9.8ft) of debris,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-662848","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\/662848","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=662848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}