A crucial 72-hour window to find survivors of the powerful earthquake that struck Venezuela had closed for good by Monday, leaving international teams scrambling to pull others from the rubble.
The death toll has exceeded 1,450 and nearly 200 buildings have completely collapsed.
On Sunday, a man and his son were found alive under the rubble by French and American rescue teams in Caraballeda, a town 40 kilometers north of Caracas.
The rescue offered a glimmer of hope in the ongoing tragedy that has rocked a country already reeling from an economic crisis, but tens of thousands of people were still reported missing.
Millions more were feared to be without toilets and other basic needs after one of the biggest earthquake disasters in South America.
Rescue teams from the United States, Mexico and elsewhere scrambled to save people as desperate residents dug out by hand for relatives stuck in layers of rock and rubble from collapsed residential buildings.
Some 774 buildings were badly damaged in the back-to-back earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 that struck Wednesday evening, including 189 buildings that have completely collapsed, National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez said Sunday.
