Caracas, June 29 (SANA)Rescue teams inVenezuelacontinued searching for survivors on Monday after twopowerful earthquakesstruck the country last week, with the death toll rising to more than 1,400 and thousands of people still unaccounted for.

Acting President Delcy Rodríguezsaid 33 people, including children, have been rescued since the emergency began, although hopes of finding more survivors are fading.

According to Reuters, Mexican rescue workers pulled an 11-year-old boy alive from the rubble in the town of Caraballeda. Rodríguez said “every life represents hope for Venezuela.”

The twin earthquakes, which struck on Wednesday with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, devastated the coastal state of La Guaira, the hardest-hit area, as international rescue teams joined search operations.

Hundreds of aftershocks have further damaged infrastructure and complicated rescue efforts. Families and volunteers spent days searching for survivors before more than 1,600 international rescue personnel arrived in the affected areas.

TheU.S. Geological Surveyestimates the death toll could exceed 10,000, making the disaster one of the deadliest earthquakes in Latin America in the past century if confirmed.

Sebastian Augster, commander of the Swiss rescue team, said the critical rescue window typically lasts about 72 hours, after which the chances of finding survivors decline sharply. He said his 80-member team located several trapped people with the help of search dogs but was unable to reach them in time to save their lives.

Augster said international rescue teams, in coordination with local authorities, will determine when search operations should end before shifting fully to relief and recovery efforts.

On Saturday,President Ahmad al-Sharaadirected that humanitarian assistance be provided to Venezuela. Later that day, aSyrian rescue teamfrom the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management departed Damascus to support search-and-rescue and humanitarian relief operations.