Officials said more than 1,600 foreign rescuers had arrived and that additional teams were on the way, adding to a growing international response to the twin quakes that struck on Wednesday and unleashed hundreds of aftershocks.

The death toll from twin earthquakes in Venezuela has climbed above 920, with more than 50,000 people still unaccounted for two days after the quakes struck on Wednesday evening. These two...

The 7.2 and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that struck on Wednesday evening were among the strongest in Venezuela in more than a century.

The number of dead was expected to climb, and people reported tens of thousands of missing on independent digital databases.

The death toll on Friday morning was 235 with at least 4,300 people injured and tens of thousands others missing.

A bloody-faced Daniel Cordero emerged from the rubble of a fallen building in Catia La Mar, Venezuela, surrounded by rescue workers who helped him onto a stretcher as bystanders filmed the scene.

Venezuela's earthquake death toll reaches 1,430 as rescuers search for 68,900 missing amid escalating humanitarian crisis.