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    People gather with their belongings near a mural of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez,

  2. Volunteers conduct search operations in a building damaged by an earthquake in La Guaira, Venezuela, 29 June 2026. National and international rescue teams continue their efforts among the ruins of buildings in the coastal state of La Guaira, north of Caracas

  3. A landscape image of people conducting a search on top of a mass of rubble from collapsed buildings

  4. A firefighter wearing a helmet and heavy-duty jacket holds a small camera device up in his hand as he searches for survivors of the earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela.

  5. BBC Correspondent Will Grant stands in the centre of a road with collapsed buildings behind him

  6. Janet Purkess is seated in a room. She has neat, wavy, short, silver hair and glasses.

  7. Daniel Vettrino looking straight at the camera. He has short, dark hair. He is wearing a black suit over a white shirt with a bow tie. Only his head and neck are visible.

  8. Will Grant in blue shirt in a campsite

  9. There are huge broken concrete blocks with wire sticking out of them lying on piles of rubble, with smaller pieces of debris visible underneath. A block of flats in the background is still standing but appears to be leaning slightly. to the right of the picture a rescue worker wearing an orange high visibility top appears dwarfed by the broken buildings around them.

  10. Will Grant in blue shirt in a campsite

  11. Close-up of woman wearing black jacket and glasses

  12. People gather and hug each other on a park bench in front of collapsed buildings.

  13. Dayana Patino looks down at her son Juan David smiling from a hospital bed Caracas. Both mother and baby have injuries on their faces

  14. the picture shows half of the boys face - the rest is obscured by rescue workers. He's wearing a white hard hat and has dark curly hair.

  15. Composite image of BBC's Orla Guerin and workers combing through rubble.

  16. A young girl with a bruised face looks into the camera

  17. A custody shot of Matthew Ashley Foster-Smith. He has short hair and a beard and is wearing a grey jumper.

  18. Woman on a stretcher carried by rescue teams

  19. Rescuer reaches into rubble

  20. Man at Colombia's border with Venezuela

  21. Emergency services pull boy from rubble

  22. Aerial footage shows scale of quake damage in Venezuela's La Guaira State

  23. Andreina Valerio, in a blue baseball cap, stands in front of rubble

  24. A man grinning with his mouth open amid rubble as he is rescued from a collapsed building.