New Delhi, June 29 -- The death toll from the twin earthquakes in Venezuela this week rose to at least 1,450 on Sunday as rescue teams raced against time to find more survivors. Foreign rescue teams, including those from the US, Mexico, and Colombia, poured into La Guaira, the hardest-hit state by Wednesday's twin magnitude earthquakes.

The death toll is expected to rise in the coming days as the rescue teams dig through the piles of sand and rubble left behind by the dozens of collapsed buildings in the coastal state.

"We must report that the number of fatalities has reached 1,450 people, women and men who lost their lives as a result of the most brutal natural catastrophe that our country has ever suffered in its history," said interi...