Nearly 24 hours after devastating twin earthquakes in Venezuela, people in the coastal city of La Guaira were still using their hands to dig through rubble, trying to rescue their neighbors.
¡°We are trying to help with what we can, but there is a lack of equipment,¡± said Carlos Borges, who said he was frustrated by the shortage of machinery like backhoes to move the piles ?of concrete slabs that were once high-rise apartment buildings.
His team pulled three people from one building, as other anxious family members, ?including the ?single mother of a missing teenage boy, waited at the site on Thursday morning.
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