![]() “We are working to find the people who are still missing, that is our main task right now,” Ceballos posted on social media late Sunday. The efforts had continued by lamplight overnight, with dogs and drones. Some 1,000 rescuers were involved in the effort, Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos told AFP, with the military also deployed.Īuthorities erected shelters for the displaced in Maracay, capital of the affected Aragua province. “The town is lost, Las Tejerias is lost,” added Carmen Melendez, 55, desperately waiting for news on the whereabouts of a missing relative. “It came too fast, we had no time,” resident Carlos Camejo, 60, said of the mudslide. Residents of Las Tejerias some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Caracas, used picks, shovels and any tools they could find to dig through a thick bank of mud deposited on the town Saturday. Neighbors helped rescue teams comb through mud and debris Monday for signs of 52 people missing after a landslide swept through a town in Venezuela, killing at least 25.Īnother 13 people were killed in heavy rains elsewhere in the South American country, while four died in Central America after tropical storm Julia dumped torrential rain on El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
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