(Caracas, Venezuela, 29th) The death toll from the Venezuela earthquake has reached nearly 1,500, and rescue workers are still racing against time to search for possible survivors.
According to Reuters, Venezuela's interim president Rodríguez said on Sunday (June 28): "Rescue operations are still ongoing. Today, we found survivors, so the rescue efforts will not stop. We always remain hopeful."
Rodríguez announced that schools would remain closed for another week, and electricity supply in the hardest-hit state of La Guaira had been restored to 75%.
Earlier, the Speaker of the National Assembly, the president's brother Jorge, said that the earthquake had caused the death toll to increase by 20 people, reaching 1,450. He added that 3,150 people were injured, 12,721 displaced, and 774 buildings had collapsed.
"We are at a critical moment. We must continue to save lives and set up camps so that those who have lost their homes or cannot return to their residences for various reasons can have shelter."
The government said that as of Saturday night (27th), at least 33 people had been rescued from the earthquake, including several children, but tens of thousands were still missing.
A father and son were rescued on Sunday from the rubble of a collapsed building, four days after the quake struck. A member of the French civil protection department said: "They are very weak, just like patients trapped under rubble for four days, so we did our best to rehydrate and give them medicine during the rescue, but the process was very slow."
Although the government put the number of missing or trapped at several hundred, Venezuela's opposition on Sunday published the number of missing people on its website as close to 50,000, slightly lower than the previous day's 55,000.
Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado told the media Sunday she plans to return to Venezuela.
Rodríguez announced that schools would remain closed for another week, and electricity supply in the hardest-hit state of La Guaira had been restored to 75%.
Earlier, the Speaker of the National Assembly, the president's brother Jorge, said that the earthquake had caused the death toll to increase by 20 people, reaching 1,450. He added that 3,150 people were injured, 12,721 displaced, and 774 buildings had collapsed.
"We are at a critical moment. We must continue to save lives and set up camps so that those who have lost their homes or cannot return to their residences for various reasons can have shelter."
The government said that as of Saturday night (27th), at least 33 people had been rescued from the earthquake, including several children, but tens of thousands were still missing.
A father and son were rescued on Sunday from the rubble of a collapsed building, four days after the quake struck. A member of the French civil protection department said: "They are very weak, just like patients trapped under rubble for four days, so we did our best to rehydrate and give them medicine during the rescue, but the process was very slow."
Although the government put the number of missing or trapped at several hundred, Venezuela's opposition on Sunday published the number of missing people on its website as close to 50,000, slightly lower than the previous day's 55,000.
Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado told the media Sunday she plans to return to Venezuela.