India, June 27 -- A mother lost her life while safeguarding her infant daughter during the catastrophic series of earthquakes in Venezuela.

Hector Bello, a soccer player for Maritimo de La Guaira, revealed on Instagram that his wife, , perished as she protected their 1-year-old daughter, Alana, from the earthquakes on Wednesday, June 24.

"You'll always be our favorite hero, Mommy. I'm going to make sure our baby remembers how wonderful you were, how much you loved her," Hector wrote in a post accompanying a photo of Andrea shared on Instagram on Friday, June 26.

"I'll tell her the story of how you saved her, how you gave your own life for our daughter, how you were a brave woman who, even with your last breaths, never abandoned her," h...