Caracas.- The death toll from the double earthquake of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 that occurred almost a month ago in the northern area of Venezuela rose this Wednesday to 5,398, after authorities added 52 deaths, reported the president of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament), Jorge Rodríguez.
Meanwhile, the number of injured remains at 16,740, according to the deputy, who published the balance on his Telegram account.
The brother of the acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, also indicated that 17,907 people lost their homes, a number that had remained the same since last July 7 and which dropped to 17,265 this Tuesday.
The senior official did not explain why the figure rose again to 17,907.
The numbers of the double earthquake
At the moment, there are 23,335 people in 107 transitional camps, 213 more than on Tuesday, while 128,324 families have been assisted by the authorities.
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In addition, this disaster left some 856 buildings affected and 190 collapsed, according to the official report, which also records 1,463 aftershocks -58 more than the previous one- since the double earthquake on June 24.
On Monday, more than 240 families received the first homes delivered by the Government to those affected by the earthquakes, in an event led by Delcy Rodríguez along with her brother at the Fuerte Tiuna military complex in Caracas.
The authorities do not offer figures for the missing, but the citizen initiative ‘Desaparecidos Terremoto Venezuela’, a website where people whose whereabouts are unknown after the earthquakes are reported, registers more than 29,000 who have not been able to be contacted.
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According to unconfirmed figures received by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs last June, the number of people missing due to the earthquakes could reach 50,000.
Unidentified victims are being buried in several recently opened graves at a municipal cemetery in the state of La Guaira, according to several witnesses who spoke to EFE earlier this month.
