The death toll from two powerful earthquakes that devastated Venezuela earlier this week rose to 920 on Friday, National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez said.
The South American country is reeling from the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 quakes that hit the country’s north within less than a minute of each other on Wednesday.
In a televised address, Rodriguez updated the death toll that had previously been at 589.
He also announced a military deployment to one of the worst-hit regions, the state of La Guaira.
More than 50,000 people were missing following the disaster, United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher told AFP on Friday.
“We’ve got over 50,000 people missing, over 500 people dead, so a massive job to go through the rubble,” he said.
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