The number of Spanish deaths due to the double earthquake in Venezuela has risen to 26, according to what was announced this Wednesday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, who put the number of Spaniards missing at 150 and those who remain under the rubble of the earthquake at 11.
Albares announced these data at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport, where he went early in the morning with Queen Letizia to say goodbye to the emergency medical team of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) that will be deployed in Venezuela to join the Spanish rescuers who are already there to care for those affected by the earthquakes.
The queen wished the members of the medical team “the best possible time taking into account the harshness and difficulties to be expected” and highlighted the “effective” response of Spanish cooperation and humanitarian aid.
More help for Venezuela
The head of Spanish diplomacy has highlighted the humanitarian aid of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and the ‘Start’ field hospital, which is going to be deployed in Venezuela. Specifically, the team traveling to the Latin American country is made up, as detailed, of “90 people in two different rotations”, who “will be able to offer the brother people of Venezuela all types of assistance.”
Furthermore, he has announced that the Government of Spain is going to make a new support contribution to Venezuela of 300,000 euros “to transport shelter material that, at this time, is “very necessary for people who have lost their homes.”
The Venezuelan authorities stated that there are 1,943 fatalities, 10,571 injured people and 15,866 families affected by the double earthquake of magnitude 7.5 and 7.2 on the Richter scale that occurred last Wednesday in the center of the Venezuelan coast and its subsequent aftershocks.
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