{"id":90954,"date":"2026-06-30T14:43:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/more-than-1700-people-killed-in-venezuelas-earthquakes-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:43:45","slug":"more-than-1700-people-killed-in-venezuelas-earthquakes-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/more-than-1700-people-killed-in-venezuelas-earthquakes-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,700 people killed in Venezuela\u2019s earthquakes | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many areas of Venezuela devastated by last week&#8217;s twin earthquakes have yet to receive significant government help, leaving residents to <!--more--> carry out much of the rescue effort.<\/p>\n<p>In the port of La Guaira, one of the hardest-hit cities, the BBC saw people using crowbars, mallets and pickaxes to try to dig out loved ones and neighbours. Tens of thousands of people are still believed to be missing.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,700 people have been killed in what Interim President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez said was the &#8220;most brutal natural catastrophe&#8221; in Venezuela&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s International Correspondent Yogita Limaye reports from the country.  <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Venezuela #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many areas of Venezuela devastated by last week&#8217;s twin earthquakes have yet to receive significant government help, leaving residents to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}