Landslide in Venezuela: President Maduro evokes a “hundred” of deaths

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro spoke on Tuesday of a death toll of “hundreds” in the landslide that occurred on Saturday in Las Tejerias, in the center-north of the country. 

“Thirty-nine bodies have already been recovered,” he said on state broadcaster VTV. “And there is still a significant number of missing people: 56 missing people. We reach almost a hundred victims who died in this tragedy, this natural disaster.” 

Rescue workers believe that it is now almost impossible to find survivors among the missing.