Venezuela earthquakes: ‘intensive’ search for survivors as death toll rises to 188 – as it happened

Delcy Rodriguez said authorities were shifting rescue teams from other parts of the country to the hardest-hit La Guaira area

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Volunteers, medics and relatives of victims have raced to the Altamira area in Caracas hoping to help save survivors from the rubble of collapsed buildings there.

I live far away [but] ... I came here riding my motorbike as fast as I could," said Jose Morillo, as he arrived outside a block of flats called Residencias Obelisco.