La Guaira is the region most affected by the tragedy. Family members wait in lines to be able to identify the dead.
Bodies found in the rubble are being taken to the port of La Guaira Federico Parra/AFP The port of La Guaira, the area most devastated by the earthquakes six days ago in Venezuela, has become an improvised morgue where bodies pulled from the rubble of collapsed buildings are being taken. Forensic doctors in blue lab coats walked on Monday (29) among dozens of body bags piled on the floor. Some bodies are already in wooden coffins, also on the ground. Near the white tent concentrating the operation, there are about a hundred empty coffins on one side and rubble on the other, AFP news agency journalists observed. The earthquakes that hit the country on Wednesday, with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5 within seconds of each other, devastated La Guaira, a coastal state neighboring Caracas, whose port is one of the most important in the country due to
Source: g1.globo.com
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