(13 Aug 2024)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 12 August 2024
1. Various of firefighters and civil protection workers clearing debris at explosion site
2. Various of firefighters clearing debris
3. Woman watching firefighters clear debris
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernando Merentes, 51, neighbor:
"At 5 o’clock in the morning, we felt the explosion and we ran out, and the people on the third floor managed to get out alive. The only ones who got buried are those on the floor below. We started to pull out debris and the firemen arrived one hour later. We were pulling everything, everyone out. But there is still people inside."
5. Fernando Merentes, neighbor, 51, speaking with people as they watch firefighters clear debris
6. Firefighter pulling a mattress out
7. Painted wall and decorations left after the building’s collapse
8. Firefighters working
9. Various of Deivida Mayora, survivor of explosion, with a cast on her leg
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Deivida Mayora, explosion survivor:
"As we could, we dug to get out our little baby. My husband gave her to me, he stayed there and I went through a hole I found to get her out. We managed to get our two girls out and I left my husband there. That’s when then people began walking in to help."
11. Mayora’s sister and daughter hugging and crying
12. Various of Jennys García, animal caretaker, holding an injured cat
13 . Firefighter carrying gas cylinder
14. Various of neighbors watching firefighters and workers clean debris
STORYLINE:
At least seven people are reported to have died, and four others ar missing after a domestic gas cylinder exploded, bringing down a three-story house in Petare, one of the largest favelas in Venezuela, according to firefighters and civil protection workers in the area.
While officials have not yet released figures, social organizations from the area and local media are reporting the death toll.
Eight houses were built together in the three-story structure where an extended family lived. Only one house that was still under construction remains standing.
"At 5 o’clock in the morning, we felt the explosion, and we ran out," said Fernando Merentes, a neighbor who rushed to help out as soon as he heard the explosion.
Merentes said most people were able to escape the crumbling building, except the ones at the bottom floor.
Deivida Mayora lived on the third floor with her husband and her two daughters. She was awake when the gas cylinder exploded, leaving her two- year-old hurt among debris and the other daughter trapped.
"As we could we dig to be able to get out the our little baby, when my husband gives her to me, he stays there and I went through a hole I found to get her (her other daughter) out", said Mayora who broke her leg during the accident.
Firefighters were still working to find victims or survivors among the rubble.
AP Video by Juan Arraez and Matias Delacroix
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