European rescue teams arrive in Venezuela in desperate bid to find quake survivors
- Search and rescue teams from France, the UK and Spain arrived in Venezuela on Tuesday to help locate and recover victims of the powerful twin earthquakes that struck the region on 24 June, killing more than 1,700.
- Tens of thousands of people remain unaccounted for and time is running out to find survivors following the quakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, the strongest to hit the South American nation in more than a century.
- "So the objective of the mission, there are currently nine of us, is precisely to go and search for victims under the rubble.
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- Search and rescue teams from France, the UK and Spain arrived in Venezuela on Tuesday to help locate and recover victims of the powerful twin earthquakes that struck the region on 24 June, killing more than 1,700.
- Tens of thousands of people remain unaccounted for and time is running out to find survivors following the quakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, the strongest to hit the South American nation in more than a century.
- "So the objective of the mission, there are currently nine of us, is precisely to go and search for victims under the rubble.
Sources: Euronews