Catia La Mar, Venezuela, July 2, 2026 (AFP) - Rescue of trapped Venezuelan underway one week after quakes

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2026-07-02

Hundreds of rescuers were working late Wednesday to save a 43-year-old Venezuelan man who has survived for a week under the ruins of a seven-story building, an AFP reporter witnessed. Hernan Gil, a 43-year-old security guard, is trapped inside his booth under the building where he worked in Catia La Mar, a coastal area almost entirely razed to the ground in the June 24 twin earthquakes, magnitude 7.2 and 7.5. Rescue teams from seven countries --......

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