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ASSOCIATED PRESS
La Guaira, Venezuela – 25 June 2026
1. Woman and man hugging, crying, collapsed building at the background
2. Various of a group of buildings damaged after the earthquake
3. Woman looking on destruction
4. La Guaira resident, Dayana Delgado
5. People working, picking rubble from a collapsed building
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dayana Delgado, La Guaira resident, mother of three children, one 8-year-old missing:
“I’m desperate. I just want to know where my son is, whether he’s trapped or at a shelter. I’m desperate. The governor said they were going to send heavy machinery, but look what time it is—they still haven’t arrived. It’s only the neighbors here helping.”
7. Various of man climbing out of his home through a window
8. Collapsed houses
9. Various of damaged buildings, burned cars
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cristian Carreño, La Guaira resident:
“There’s no way to explain it. I lost everything—my apartment, my car, my motorcycle. There were four apartments in the building, and one was completely buried. Everything on the ground floor was buried. I imagine there were people trapped inside who couldn’t get out. It was devastating. Thank God we’re alive.”
11. Damaged buildings
12. Road destroyed by earthquake
13. Various of buildings
14. Various of families at a park
STORYLINE:
Residents of La Guaira, one of the areas hardest hit by Wednesday’s earthquake in Venezuela, stood in stunned silence Thursday as they surveyed the destruction, waiting for official aid to arrive.
Rescue teams raced Thursday to the areas hardest hit by a pair of powerful earthquakes that rocked Venezuela, killing at least 164 people, injuring nearly 1,000 and trapping many beneath collapsed buildings.
Wednesday evening’s 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes were among the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century and could be felt throughout the region. The country’s main airport was damaged and closed, while buildings were evacuated in places as far away as Brazil’s Amazon, about 1,700 kilometers (1,050 miles) from Venezuela’s capital, Caracas.
Television broadcasts Thursday showed rescue workers using power tools to work their way into piles of rubble where buildings once stood.
Panicked residents of the capital were sent pouring into the streets, and after the quakes many people walked among the debris searching for the missing among collapsed buildings and toppled electric poles.
Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, who gave the latest death toll early Thursday, said authorities were shifting rescue teams from other parts of the country to La Guaira, which sits north of Caracas on the coast. Officials were trying to make the most of the daylight hours to speed up efforts to rescue people believed to remain trapped under the rubble, she said.
Footage on state TV showed three children, covered in dust but alive, pulled from the rubble in La Guaira state, which Rodríguez described as a “disaster zone” and one of the areas hardest hit by the quakes because of the large number of collapsed buildings.
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