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More than 3,500 deaths are confirmed since the earthquakes in Venezuela, the UN reports that the death toll could reach 10,000. Bellingcat has geolocated footage that appears to show several coffins placed in newly dug trenches. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/07...

bellingcat.comBetween Graves and Uncertainty: The Management of the Dead After Venezuela's Earthquake - bellingcatVideos, pictures and satellite imagery show the challenges facing Venezuela as it tries to get to grips with huge fatality numbers in the wake of last month's earthquakes.
Bellingcat
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The location matches a site identified in July 6 reports by AFP and Deutsche Welle (DW), which detailed that 150 unidentified bodies had been buried in a long row of individual graves.

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Bellingcat
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The scale of the disaster has overwhelmed local services, forcing institutions to improvise. Some bodies were being placed outside, exposed to the sun, at a port facility in La Guaira, the BBC reported. A further complication is that many of the bodies recovered have reportedly been unrecognisable.

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Forensics expert Oran Finegan, said that even when families are unable to immediately identify their loved ones, it was vital to ensure that the deceased are buried respectfully and in a way that preserves the possibility of future identification.

reasonablyangry.bsky.social
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Could you let me know the methods you used that led to drinking so deeply of the GI Koolaid that your podcast forgot to challenge in any way Chiara Capraro’s fact free nonsense report (now “under review“) about grassroots UK women’s rights orgs? x.com/forwomenscot...

x.comFor Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) on XBellingcat, which claims to specialise in investigation and fact checking, allowed this woman to spread her malicious libel about feminist groups and lie about history & the law on their podcast. ...