Argentine footballer's family killed in Venezuela quakes
Volunteers and residents search for survivors on the rubble of collapsed buildings in Caraballeda, La Guaira state, Venezuela, on June 28, 2026, following earthquakes. Thousands of rescuers, relatives and volunteers dig day and night through mounds of concrete to find survivors of the earthquakes that struck Venezuela more than three days ago, leaving nearly 1,500 dead and tens of thousands missing. Related co
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The wife and two
children of Argentine footballer Lucas Trejo have died after powerful twin
earthquakes struck Venezuela, his team has announced.
Trejo, who plays
for Club Sport Maritimo La Guaira, a second-division team in Venezuela, had
searched for his wife Yanina and children Aaron and Ainhoa in the rubble for
three days before rescue workers recovered their bodies, US media reported.
"Club Sport
Maritimo La Guaira deeply mourns the irreparable loss of our player's wife and
children," the team said in a post on Instagram, accompanied by a photo of
the family.
Trejo, 38, was
at a team training camp in Caracas when the quakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5
struck on Wednesday evening, according to CNN.
He immediately
returned to his home in La Guaira -- the state worst hit by the disaster -- to
"a horrific scene," Trejo's brother-in-law Ricardo Ardiles told CNN.
"He found
absolutely nothing of what the building itself had been," Ardiles said.
Nearly 1,500
people have died and tens of thousands are still unaccounted for, Venezuelan
authorities said on Sunday.
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