Nigeria, June 25 -- Two seismic earthquakes have struck Venezuela, killing at least 32 people and injuring about 700 others, the BBC is reporting.

The first quake struck Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, at 18:04 local time (22:04 GMT), when many people were at home, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).

Witnesses told Reuters that they felt tremors from the 7.1-magnitude quake as far as neighbouring Bogota, Colombia.

The second quake struck at a location about 23km southeast of Yumare in Venezuela.

This is not the first time Caracas has suffered a devastating earthquake.

In 1967, a 6.6-magnitude earthquake killed more than 200 people and destroyed buildings in the middle-class neighbourhood of Palos Grandes and the upscale ...