The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, has raised to 18 the number of Spaniards who died in the earthquakes that hit Venezuela last week and the number of missing compatriots has also risen to 144.
Albares has also reported that 12 Spaniards are located under the rubble, according to updated figures. The last official balance offered this Monday by Foreign Affairs indicated that there were 17 the number of Spaniards killed in the catastrophe and 138 people missing.
The minister has also indicated that from Foreign Affairs they will continue to mobilize emergency aid from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). Thus, he confirmed that this Wednesday a plane will take off with the ‘Start’ team and the emergency field hospital, “which is very necessary at this time to care for the numerous injured who are increasingly increasing in Venezuela.”
The head of Spanish diplomacy has also pointed out that the Spanish Government will support “the brotherly people” of Venezuela “for as long as necessary in these dramatic and emergency moments.” “You have our full solidarity as when the time for reconstruction comes,” he stressed.
The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, confirmed this Monday that at least 1,719 people have died and more than 5,000 were injured due to the double earthquake of magnitude 7.5 and 7.2 on the Richter scale that registered last Wednesday in the center of the Venezuelan coast.
