A port in La Guaira was turned into a makeshift morgue, footage from June 29 shows, after numerous Venezuelans were killed in back-to-back earthquakes.
According to National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez, at least 2,295 people were known to have died and 10,571 injured.
Thousands more were injured and left homeless by the temblors, Rodriguez said in an address on state television.
An unofficial but widely used list of the missing stands at 40,567. A United Nations envoy this week said it was procuring 10,000 body bags for Venezuela and the USGS has estimated more than 10,000 deaths were possible due to the quakes.
Residents have criticized the government of interim President Delcy Rodriguez for what they call a slow and inadequate response by the state, while NGO the International Rescue Committee on Tuesday said the scale of the response was not meeting humanitarian needs.
Rodriguez in a post on X said that authorities continue helping those affected, as well as supervising recovery efforts. “I know that many Venezuelans feel pain and frustration. I deeply share those feelings,” she said, before declaring seven days of national mourning.
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