Rescuers 'pulling people out with their bare hands' as earthquakes kill 920 - BBC News

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The number of people killed in two Venezuelan earthquakes has risen to at least 920, with 3,360 injured, according to officials
In Caracas, overwhelmed rescuers are "pulling people out with their bare hands", a student tells the BBC
Natacha Diaz, a mother of two missing women, says her daughters "are all I have" - watch what else she says
Others are also trying to reach their relatives - Marianella tells BBC News Mundo "my heart tells me my brother is alive"
International rescue teams, bringing along sniffer dogs, have joined the search for survivors
The quakes, with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, hit a minute apart on Wednesday night, and the second was the strongest to hit Venezuela since 1900 - here's what else we know
You can also follow the latest updates on BBC News Mundo

Live Reporting

Edited by Tinshui Yeung, with Vanessa Silva reporting from La Guaira

Rescuers search the rubble of collapsed buildingspublished at 00:57 BST 25 June

More pictures are coming in showing the devastation in parts of the capital.
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A motorcyclist rides past debris in Caracas.
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Rescue workers and police officers work at the site of a collapsed building following the earthquake.
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A Bancaribe bank building collapsed during the earthquake.
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Two police officers evacuate an injured victim from a collapsed building.
'I've never experienced anything like it,' witness sayspublished at 00:54 BST 25 June

"Several walls in my building broke open or cracks formed," one witness tells Reuters.
Another witness, Coro Martinez, who lives in eastern Caracas describes a "very loud crash" to the news agency.
"Things fell in the house, jugs inside the refrigerator. I've never experienced anything like it," the 56-year-old says.
Pensioner Maria Romero compares the earthquake to the deadly 1967 natural disaster in Caracas, saying this one was "even worse".

Several Venezuelan states affected, interior minister sayspublished at 00:51 BST 25 June
Vanessa Buschschlüter
Latin America and Caribbean editor

Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello tells state television that a number of Venezuelan states have been affected by the quake.
"There was a seismic event, everything indicates that it had a magnitude much greater than seven," he said speaking via phone to VTV.
“It has been strongly felt in Trujillo, Yaracuy, Carabobo, Aragua, Miranda, Caracas and La Guaira.”
He adds that in the capital, Caracas, the neighbourhoods of Palos Grandes and Altamira were worst hit.
A second earthquake with a 7.5 magnitude hits the regionpublished at 00:50 BST 25 June
Breaking

A second earthquake with a 7.5-magnitude has struck Venezuela about 39 seconds after a 7.2 quake rattled the region.
The tremor's epicentre was 23km southeast of Yumare and about 10km deep, according to the US Geological Survey.

Shock and debris in the streets of Caracaspublished at 00:41 BST 25 June

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Residents filled the streets after the quake reduced buildings to ruins.
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Rescue workers search the rubble of a collapsed building in Venezuela's capital
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People gather on the streets of Caracas after evacuating buildings.
Venezuela earthquake destroys buildings in capitalpublished at 00:33 BST 25 June

A strong earthquake has struck Venezuela, destroying buildings in the capital of Caracas.
Witnesses say they felt tremors from the 7.1 magnitude quake as far as neighbouring Colombia, according to the Reuters news agency.
The quake struck the area of Montalbán at a depth of 13.2km at 18:04 local time (23:04 BST), according to the US Geological Survey (USGC).
A tsunami warning was issued for Venezuela, the US Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands by the US Tsunami Warning System but has now been cancelled.
Stay with us as we learn more.