A handful of late rescues have been reported across Venezuela, as hope for finding more survivors four days after devastating twin earthquakes has begun to fade.No new death toll was released on Sunday, with officials saying on Saturday that 1,430 people were confirmed dead, following the back-to-back 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes which hit near the coastal area of La Guiara on Wednesday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listLate Saturday marked 72 hours since the devastating quakes, the period when authorities said trapped people were expected to survive. More than 50,000 have been reported missing.A handful of rescues on Sunday offered glimmers of hope.They included a 60-year-old woman saved from the rubble of a building in the coastal area of Carabayida. She had been trapped for 86 hours.In a post on X, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said rescue teams deployed by his country and by Peru worked for eleven hours to rescue the woman.She had been taken to a hospital in Caracas for treatment, where her condition remained “delicate”, he said.“This achievement was made possible thanks to the effort and perseverance of our rescuers, who worked tirelessly throughout the night and early morning hours, with the support of Peruvian USAR rescuers,” Bukele said.A US rescue team from Virginia pulled a man and his son from the ruins on Sunday morning and carried them on a black tarpaulin into an ambulance, …
