The official death toll has risen to 3,685, an increase of 150 in 24 hours, while international rescue teams are mostly withdrawing and families demand continued searches for missing relatives.Workers at La Esperanza cemetery have dug about 500 new burial plots and set aside space for roughly 150 unidentified victims, and CNN reports that the citizens’ group Desaparecidos Terremoto Venezuela has logged more than 30,000 unconfirmed missing-person reports.The twin quakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 struck on June 24; La Guaira is the hardest hit state, officials including
Jorge Rodríguez and acting president
Delcy Rodríguez say odds of finding survivors are extremely low, and
Venezuela has asked for seismic experts from Japan, Peru and Chile while several countries send aid.