By Raphael John-Lall

The death toll from Wednes­day’s dev­as­tat­ing earth­quakes in Venezuela has climbed to 920, ac­cord­ing to an up­date pro­vid­ed at 1.30 pm on Fri­day by Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al As­sem­bly, Jorge Ro­dríguez.

Ro­dríguez said 3,360 peo­ple have been in­jured and 3,007 oth­ers af­fect­ed by the dis­as­ter.