An Argentine soccer player for a Venezuelan second division team has lost his wife and two children after last week’s earthquakes, the strongest to hit Venezuela in more than a century. Lucas Trejo, who plays for Club Sport Marítimo La Guaira, had spent much of the last three days combing through rubble and looking for signs of his wife Yanina and their children Aarón and Ainhoa.
Earthquakes Devastate Venezuela
More than 1,400 people died and thousands more are missing in Venezuela, authorities said Sunday. The disaster last week, which the US Geological Survey said was a rare “doublet,” with two major earthquakes striking just 39 seconds apart, has also killed and impacted several soccer players in the country.
Trejo’s brother-in-law Ricardo Ardiles told CNN Español Friday the soccer player was “emotionally overwhelmed” and that “absolutely nothing” was left of the family’s beachfront home in La Guaira, one of the hardest-hit areas. Trejo, 38, was at a team training camp in Caracas when the two earthquakes struck, CNN Español reported.
Friends and teammates had also made a video pleading for more machinery to help in the search efforts. The search, however, came to a heartbreaking end. On Sunday, Club Sport Marítimo La Guaira said it “deeply mourns the irreparable loss” of Trejo’s family in a social media post, sharing a photo of the four together.
Original reporting: El Paso News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
