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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...

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.

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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