An Argentine footballer has lost his wife and two young children in the Venezuela earthquakes after rescuers recovered their bodies beneath the rubble of the family home he had desperately searched for days, refusing to give up hope they had somehow survived.
Lucas Trejo, a 38-year-old defender, was at his team's training camp in Caracas when the earthquakes struck on Wednesday, 24 June. He rushed back to the family home in Playa Grande, La Guaira, roughly 18 miles from the capital, only to find the building reduced to rubble. Over the following days, he searched through the debris alongside friends, team-mates and relatives who had travelled from Argentina, while appeals were made for heavy machinery to speed up the rescue effort.
