Death Toll Rises To 3,535 In Venezuela Earthquake

The death toll from the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, 2026,  has risen to 3,535, according to updated official figures released on Monday.

Agency reports quoted the government as saying that 16,740 people were injured in the disaster, while over 17,000 were displaced after the powerful back-to-back earthquakes devastated communities in La Guaira state, north of the capital, Caracas.
Although the Venezuelan government has not released an official figure for those unaccounted for beneath the rubble, entire neighbourhoods were flattened by the earthquakes, with thousands of people still believed to be missing.

This is even as the United Nations estimates that no fewer than 50,000 people may still be missing, with  survivors remaining in temporary shelters set up on streets, public parks and car parks as relief efforts continued.
With hopes of finding more survivors fading, emergency operations have shifted towards recovering bodies and clearing debris. International search and rescue teams have also begun withdrawing from the country, even as 
families continue to search for missing relatives in the hope of recovering their remains for burial.
On Sunday, authorities began burying dozens of unidentified victims in a mass grave at La Esperanza cemetery in La Guaira.
A row of simple white crosses, each adorned with a small bouquet of flowers and bearing the date "24 June 2026", marked the individual graves of the unidentified victims.