Argentine footballer’s family killed in Venezuela earthquakes

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Lucas Trejo lost his wife and two children in last week’s deadly earthquakes, according to a social media post from La Guaira Maritime Sports Club. Instagram/Lucas Trejo

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The wife and two children of Argentine footballer Lucas Trejo have died after powerful twin earthquakes struck Venezuela, his team said on Sunday.

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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“He found absolutely nothing of what the building itself had been,” Ardiles said.

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Nearly 1,500 people have died and tens of thousands are still unaccounted for, Venezuelan authorities said on Sunday.

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