![]() Unusually heavy rains last Saturday caused a major river and several streams to overflow and gush through the town nestled in the mountains near Caracas. Two more funerals were scheduled for later Friday. “That belongs to a three-year-old girl who was wrenched from her mother’s arms,” by the landslide, he said pointing to a blue-tiled grave.Ī few meters away, a fresh pile of soil with a bouquet of flowers marked the grave of an elderly couple. “This has been sad,” said one of the gravediggers, who asked not to be named. Venezuelan authorities have confirmed 50 deaths so far, of whom 16 have been buried. Gravediggers have had their hands full at the cemetery of Las Tejerias, a town of some 50,000 people laid to waste by a torrent of mud, stones and trees that followed hours of heavy rains. “We love you princess,” reads the inscription on the fresh grave of a three-year-old girl among dozens of people killed by a devastating landslide in a Venezuelan town last week. ![]()
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