WASHINGTON, July 15 — The death toll from last month’s back-to-back earthquakes in Venezuela climbed to 4,734, National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez said on Tuesday, Anadolu Ajansi reported.
Rodriguez said a total of 16,740 people had been injured.
He said authorities had assisted 128,324 families and established 107 temporary camps housing 20,903 people, while 17,907 people remained without permanent housing.
He said the earthquakes damaged 856 buildings, including 190 that collapsed.
The twin earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 struck the South American nation on June 24.
