Venezuela earthquakes: ‘intensive’ search for survivors as death toll rises to 188 – as it happened

Delcy Rodríguez said authorities were shifting rescue teams from other parts of the country to the hardest-hit La Guaira area Venezuela declares state of emergency after deadly twin earthquakes Have you been affected by the earthquakes in Venezuela? At least 188 people are known to have died and hundreds more injured in Venezuela after the country was hit by two powerful earthquakes late on Wednesday afternoon. Thousands more people are feared dead as rescue crews work through the rubble along the shattered north coast. A state of emergency has been declared by Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez, who has spoken to US secretary of state Marco Rubio and been “in constant contact” with the Trump administration, which has pledged $150m in aid. More than 100 buildings collapsed in La Guaira, a small coastal state north of Caracas that was hardest hit by the earthquakes, said the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha). The level of devastation is overwhelming local authorities, Ocha said. Besides La Guaira, the worst affected regions were the capital of Caracas as well as the states of Miranda, Aragua, Carabobo and Falcón, Rodríguez said. O