Venezuela earthquakes aftershock hits near capital city as man rescued from rubble after being trapped for 106 hours – as it happened

• The United States has pledged more than $300m in funding to aid earthquake-hit Venezuela, the state department said today, up from a previous commitment of $150m. “These funds will provide emergency medical care, food assistance, water and sanitation, shelter, protection, and logistics,” the department said in a statement.

• Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez has posted footage of the rescuing of Aaron Levi Cantillo Vargas, 21, who she says was trapped under rubble in the town of Caraballeda for 106 hours before being pulled out to safety earlier today

• The president of Venezuela’s National Assembly has warned time is running out to rescue survivors trapped under the rubble. The death toll from the earthquakes has risen to at least 1,450 people, with 3,150 injured and 12,721 others displaced, Jorge Rodríguez said yesterday in a televised address.

• A 4.6-magnitude aftershock centred ⁠at ⁠a depth ​of 10km (six ⁠miles) hit north of the Venezuelan ⁠capital Caracas ​early ‌on ‌Monday, according to ‌the US Geological Survey. No damage was immediately reported from the ‌aftershock.

• US Marines are working to repair the Venezuelan port of La Guaira, a senior administration official said Monday, as Washington boosted its financial commitment for the earthquake-hit country to $300m. A “specialised team of Marines” are “working around the clock to repair that port and allow the delivery of critical supplies by sea,” the US official told journalists on condition of anonymity, adding that the USS Fort Lauderdale – an amphibious transport dock warship – had also docked there.

• Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, the Netherlands defence minister and deputy prime minister, said last night that the patrol vessel HNLMS Groningen was heading from the Caribbean to Venezuela to provide assistance to Venezuela following the earthquakes. In a post on X, she said the ship, which will deliver relief supplies, can provide and produce drinking water to affected areas in the country.

• The wife and two children of Argentine footballer Lucas Trejo have died after the powerful twin earthquakes struck Venezuela last week, his team said on Sunday. Trejo, who plays for Club Sport Maritimo La Guaira, a second-division team in Venezuela, had searched for his wife Yanina and children Aarón and Ainhoa in the rubble for three days before rescue workers recovered their bodies, CNN reported.

• China says it will send 100 million yuan ($14.7m; £11.1m) in disaster relief aid to Venezuela. The Chinese government will provide Venezuela with “emergency free relief supplies… to support earthquake relief and post-disaster reconstruction”, foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters this morning.

• All schools in Venezuela will remain closed until at least 6 June due to the extensive damage caused by the earthquakes that struck last week, the country’s education ministry has said. The government has urged families to follow official channels to keep informed about the latest developments.

Workers remove a large piece of debris as part of the search and rescue efforts at the collapsed residential building Rita, in the San Bernardino neighbourhood.

US Marines are working to repair the Venezuelan port of La Guaira, a senior administration official said Monday, as Washington boosted its financial commitment for the earthquake-hit country to $300m.

A “specialised team of Marines” are “working around the clock to repair that port and allow the delivery of critical supplies by sea,” the US official told journalists on condition of anonymity, adding that the USS Fort Lauderdale – an amphibious transport dock warship – had also docked there.

La Guaira, on Venezuelan’s northern coast, is one of the country’s two main ports.

A residential complex once touted as part of former strongman leader Hugo Chavez’s flagship housing program has been left uninhabitable in Venezuela’s earthquake disaster.

Built as part of efforts to modernise Venezuela, the buildings now symbolise the country’s dire situation after twin quakes on Wednesday left nearly 1,500 people confirmed dead and tens of thousands missing.

“Most of the buildings at the back of the complex have completely collapsed,” Jenny Contreras, 28, said.

Contreras, her husband and their four-year-old son have slept on a mattress in the street since the quakes tore into 192 buildings in the Urbanismo Hugo Chavez complex in the Catia La Mar neighbourhood of La Guaira.

The 3,400 apartments have been evacuated and Contreras said she was not even able to return to recover belongings.

Large cracks rippled through the buildings, revealing interior construction materials, AFP reporters said. Some were teetering on the verge of collapse and others had already fallen.

Even for buildings that are still standing, the future is bleak.

“The entire development will be condemned. The whole development is going to disappear in the future because all of it is in very bad condition,” Contreras said.

The United States has pledged more than $300m in funding to aid earthquake-hit Venezuela, the state department said today, up from a previous commitment of $150m.

“These funds will provide emergency medical care, food assistance, water and sanitation, shelter, protection, and logistics,” the department said in a statement.

The money is being directed through partner organisations including Samaritan’s Purse, Catholic Relief Services, the International Organization for Migration, the World Food Programme and the Red Cross, the statement said.

Washington has also deployed four urban search-and-rescue teams to Venezuela that are made up of more than 300 first responders and almost two dozen search dogs, the statement added.

In a separate post on X, Delcy Rodríguez, who has been criticised for the sluggish official response to the earthquakes, praised the international contribution to the ongoing rescue and relief efforts.

She said:

We visited the García Carneiro Stadium, where response teams from the international community are located, having arrived to provide support. 30 countries, 3,681 rescuers, 1,086 tons of supplies, 27 vehicles, and 118 canines that bolster the search and rescue efforts. Thank you!

Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez has posted footage of the rescuing of Aaron Levi Cantillo Vargas, 21, who she says was trapped under rubble in the town of Caraballeda for 106 hours before being pulled out to safety earlier today (see post at 13.58 for more details).

Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, the Netherland’s defence minister and deputy prime minister, said last night that the patrol vessel HNLMS Groningen was heading from the Caribbean to Venezuela to provide assistance to Venezuela following the earthquakes.

In a post on X, she said the ship, which will deliver relief supplies, can provide and produce drinking water to affected areas in the country.

The Reuters news agency is reporting that an explosion at a ⁠rig operated by ⁠state-run ​oil company PDVSA ⁠in Venezuela’s Apure state left at ⁠least eight ​workers ‌injured ‌yesterday evening. They were transported to ‌Colombia for medical assistance, according ​to the sources, who spoke under the condition of anonymity.

A 4.6-magnitude aftershock centred ⁠at ⁠a depth ​of 10km (six ⁠miles) hit north of the Venezuelan ⁠capital Caracas ​early ‌on ‌Monday, according to ‌the US Geological Survey.

No damage was immediately reported from the ‌aftershock.

Wednesday’s twin earthquakes have ​left close to 1,500 people confirmed dead, ⁠the president of ​the National ​Assembly, ​Jorge Rodriguez, said ​on ‌social ​media.