Tom Phillips
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3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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So the earthquakes, two of them within the space of 39 seconds, struck at just after 6 p.m.
on Wednesday the 24th of June, which is a bank holiday here in Venezuela.
Many people were at home.
Some people were watching the Brazil-Scotland World Cup game.
And they would have had, particularly in La Guaida, where the buildings went down so fast, absolutely no chance to respond, to get out.
There is a video that fishermen who were in the water took looking back at the region.
And these buildings came down in seconds.
Many of those families, they are now camped outside these broken buildings.
They've been sleeping rough, waiting for rescue teams to arrive, waiting for heavy machinery to arrive, waiting for someone to do something.
I mean, they've been taking matters into their own hands.
They've been grabbing spades and pickaxes and getting into the rubble themselves to search.
I met one family yesterday and they'd built a shack in a small shanty in the rubble and they'd used the rubble of the building that their daughter was in at the time of the earthquake to support their mattress that they are now sleeping on outside.
And they have been there night after night after night and they are distraught and they are also furious.
I mean, the father I spoke to whose daughter was inside
I asked him what he would say to Venezuela's acting president if she were sat there on the mattress beside him.
as he spoke, and he said, I would tell her that this damned revolution has destroyed our country and has destroyed our lives.
I mean, first of all, there is just the despair and the pain for families of the people who have died.
And particularly for the people who have not yet been able to find their loved ones in the rubble.
Many, many, many, many bodies are obviously still trapped in these huge buildings that came down.
And it's just almost unimaginable that anyone could be alive inside.
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