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‘Concrete breaking off walls’: Survivors describe Venezuela’s earthquakes
Key takeaways
- The Venezuelan government has loosened restrictions on social media as residents search for missing loved ones.
- He’d spent a short, anxious sleep in his silver Aveo car, too afraid to go back to his seventh-floor apartment in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Just hours earlier, he had been startled by the piercing alarm on his mobile phone.
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The Venezuelan government has loosened restrictions on social media as residents search for missing loved ones.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Neighbours carry a man rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in La Guaira, Venezuela, on June 25, the day after a pair of deadly earthquakes [Pedro Mattey/AP Photo]By Catherine Ellis Published On 25 Jun 202625 Jun 2026On Thursday morning, Billy Ebrin set out to search for bodies.
He’d spent a short, anxious sleep in his silver Aveo car, too afraid to go back to his seventh-floor apartment in Caracas, Venezuela.
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