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The June 24 double shocks, one of Latin America's worst quake disasters, toppled scores of buildings in the La Guaira coastal area north of Caracas and left thousands of people missing.

An Argentine soccer player Lucas Trejo lost his wife and two children in the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, multiple reports said.

The national death toll stands at 920, while people remain trapped under the rubble in the coastal city and elsewhere.

The International Organization for Migration said that up to 6.76 million people in Venezuela could be affected by the quakes, some 2 million of them in Caracas alone.

The earthquakes, among the strongest to strike in over a century, roiled the region, with buildings evacuated in cities and areas impacted as far as Brazil's Amazon, about 1,700 km from Caracas.