Venezuela's twin earthquakes death toll reaches nearly 3,000 as rescue operations wind down

Nearly 3,000 confirmed dead with up to 50,000 missing; thousands displaced and sheltering in camps; families still recovering bodies from rubble.

Ten days after two massive earthquakes struck Venezuela's northern coast within seconds of each other, nearly three thousand lives have been confirmed lost and tens of thousands more remain unaccounted for — a toll that may never be fully known. The twin shocks, arriving thirty-eight seconds apart on June 24, reduced coastal communities to rubble and exposed the deep fragility of a nation already worn thin by years of economic and political crisis. As international rescue teams depart and the search for survivors gives way to the recovery of the dead, Venezuela faces not only grief on an enorm

Venezuela's twin earthquakes death toll reaches nearly 3,000 as rescue operations wind down

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