Venezuela Earthquake Claims Lives, Search for Survivors Ongoing

Worst incident of its kind in country for more than 125 years leaves many searching for family members – and pleading for international helpVenezuela death toll doubles as interim president vows to save ‘as many people as possible’Nearly all of Ligia Level’s family lived in a trio of apartment blocks along Hotel Avenue, a seafront sweep of palm-specked resorts and high-rise condos along Venezuela’s Caribbean coast. When a powerful “doublet” of earthquakes jolted the region on Wednesday afternoon, those buildings and the lives within them came crashing down. Continue reading...