Image source, ReutersWilker Molaya has been desperately trying to rescue his daughter after the building she was in collapsed in La Guaira during last week’s double earthquakes in Venezuela.
“I pulled my daughter halfway out,” he tells the Reuters news agency, but adds: “They don’t give us any equipment, and we have families there.”
Molaya isn’t the only one still trying to rescue family from the rubble. Hector Villegas says his ex-wife, his son-in-law’s mother and his eldest grandson where inside a building when the quake hit.
“Since that day, we haven’t been able to locate their bodies,” Villegas says. “I see that rescue efforts are under way and we’ll be here waiting.”
Mexican Red Cross volunteer Adalberto Pastor says rescuers are now using electronic equipment to locate people after first relying on search dogs.
“We are currently continuing the search using electronic equipment, which allows us to be more certain about the locations that the dog teams may have already detected,” Pastor says.
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