‘Paralysed by fear’: Venezuelans tell of escape and loss after huge earthquakes
People in Caracas and coastal towns describe powerful quakes that collapsed buildings and killed at least 164As a double whammy of powerful earthquakes rattled Venezuela’s northern coast on Wednesday, residents...
By María de los Ángeles Graterol and Camille Rodríguez Montilla in Caracas, and Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro · The Guardian World
People in Caracas and coastal towns describe powerful quakes that collapsed buildings and killed at least 164 As a double whammy of powerful earthquakes rattled Venezuela’s northern coast on Wednesday, residents of the capital, Caracas, scrambled out on to the streets from shuddering, fractured buildings. “It was horrible. I felt like the house was moving to a different rhythm to the earth. I had to carry my mum out. She was paralysed by fear,” said 18-year-old Sebastian Rodríguez, whose family runs a shop in Centro Plaza, a brutalist commercial centre in the affluent neighbourhood of Los Palos Grandes. Continue reading...