Nicolas Maduro Guerra, son of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and a National Assembly deputy, explained the reason for heavy damage from the earthquake in the capital.
In an interview with CNN, he attributed the destruction to the abundance of buildings constructed in the mid-20th century.
He is participating in search and rescue operations in the San Bernardino area of Caracas, where a residential building collapsed.
"There are many old buildings from the 1950s and 1960s in this area. We also saw collapsed buildings in the Chacao and Baruta municipalities in eastern Caracas," he noted.
Maduro's son emphasized that the government still lacks precise data on the scale of destruction: "We don't have exact numbers yet, but we are already on the streets helping people."
The earthquake occurred on the evening of June 24, with two tremors of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 about 40 seconds apart. The epicenters were located in Yaracuy state, 10 km apart.
