Snapshot · The Daily
The Venezuelan government's official count stood at around 2,000 dead, but officials themselves suggested the toll could rise to about 10,000, with some crowdsourced estimates of 50,000 missing.
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Playing back audio from his own car recording, Karmanayev describes the journey into La Guaira: the procession of supply trucks, motorbikes carrying groceries, and the eerie normalcy of the surrounding landscape until the moment you entered the city itself. Then: walls blown out, lifts collapsed, people's possessions hanging from shattered buildings. The apparent randomness was striking — one block completely unscathed, the next utterly leveled. Standing on a collapsed high-rise, he was struck for the first time in his career by the physical smell of death: the unmistakable odor of decaying flesh rising from the rubble as dozens of volunteers dug around him.
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