Soccer star's wife and 2 children killed in Venezuela earthquakes, team says

The woman and 2 children of Argentine shot prima Lucas Trejo person died aft powerful duplicate earthquakes struck Venezuela, his squad said connected Sunday.

Trejo, who plays for Club Sport Maritimo La Guaira, a second-division squad successful Venezuela, had searched for his woman Yanina and children Aaron and Ainhoa successful the rubble for 3 days earlier rescue workers recovered their bodies, CNN reported.

"Club Sport Maritimo La Guaira profoundly mourns the irreparable nonaccomplishment of our player's woman and children," the squad said successful a post connected Instagram, accompanied by a photograph of the family.

"Peace to their souls and comfortableness for Lucas and each his loved ones," the squad wrote in post connected X.

Trejo, 38, was astatine a squad grooming campy successful Caracas erstwhile the quakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck connected Wednesday evening, and instantly returned to his location successful La Guaira — the authorities worst deed by the disaster — to "a horrific scene," Trejo's brother-in-law Ricardo Ardiles told CNN Espanol.

"He recovered perfectly thing of what the gathering itself had been," Ardiles said.

The woman and 2 children of Argentine footballer Lucas Trejo died aft almighty duplicate earthquakes struck Venezuela, his squad said connected Sunday. Instagram/Lucas Trejo

Nearly 1,500 radical person died and tens of thousands are inactive unaccounted for, Venezuelan authorities said connected Sunday.

Race to find survivors

Over the weekend, a parent and her 9-month-old babe were pulled from the rubble of a collapsed gathering successful Venezuela by a U.S. hunt and rescue team.

Virginia Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 shared a video of its members pulling a pistillate from the rubble of a collapsed building. Neighbors cheered arsenic she was pulled from the wreckage. 

Another video, shared by the U.S. State Department, showed the babe being removed from the rubble wrapped successful bluish fabric. The baby's look was blurred, but it could beryllium heard crying. 

Venezuelans person reported seeing fewer authorities rescue teams successful the hardest-hit areas, though acting President Delcy Rodríguez said the Venezuelan authorities was mounting a afloat response. The authorities of Caracas said Saturday that astir 200 radical had been rescued. But online databases accidental astir 51,000 stay missing.

A pistillate named Diana Sandrano told CBS News that she volition hunt for her missing member "as agelong arsenic it takes." 

"He deserves to unrecorded and person a future," Sandrano said, aft a time of searching. 

Kerry Breen contributed to this report.

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