Argentine player's wife and children found dead after earthquakes in Venezuela

Number of deaths from earthquakes in Venezuela exceeds 1400
After 74 hours of searches, the wife and two children of Argentine football player Lucas Trejo were found dead on Saturday night (27).
They had been missing since the earthquakes that hit Venezuela last Wednesday (24), when the building where the family lived collapsed.
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Yanina Maranella and the couple's children, Aarón, aged 5, and Ainhoa, aged 7, were in the building at the time of the collapse. Trejo, 38, was not at the scene and spent the last few days following the search in the hope of finding them alive.
The family's death was confirmed by the Venezuelan club Deportivo La Guaira, where the player plays.
"We, at DLG, join in the mourning that afflicts player Lucas Trejo over the painful passing of his wife, Yanina Maranella, and his children, Aarón and Ainhoa Trejo. May their souls rest in peace and may Lucas and all his family and friends find comfort."
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Until the publication of this report, Trejo had not spoken publicly. Hours before confirming the death of his wife and children, however, he published a photo on social media with his family.
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Argentine football player Lucas Trejo said this Thursday (25) that his family is missing after the devastating earthquakes that hit Venezuela on Wednesday night.
Trejo, who plays for a Venezuelan team, said he had no news about his family and that the building where they lived collapsed due to the tremor. He made an appeal on social media for any news about the whereabouts of his wife, Yani, and his two children, Aarón and Ainhoa.
"Our building in Praia Grande collapsed, I don't know anything about my family, please pray for them and spread this message to someone who may have seen them. I want to believe that they weren't there. Pray for my family, please," said Trejo.
Praia Grande is a coastal municipality in Venezuela that is about 12 km north of the capital Caracas.
Argentine football player Lucas Trejo and his family in a photo from April 2026.
Reproduction/Lucas Trejo on Instagram
The Argentine player's situation is the same as that of thousands of Venezuelans this Thursday, who suffered from the consequences of a sequence of two earthquakes, of magnitudes 7.5 and 7.2, which devastated Venezuelan territory on Wednesday night (24).
Buildings and houses collapsed across the country, and more than 100 people died and hundreds were injured, according to the Venezuelan government.
Hundreds of Venezuelan rescue teams were working this Thursday (25) in search of survivors under the rubble.
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The earthquakes caused at least 20 replicas in the following hours, according to the Venezuelan government. The tremors were also felt in cities in the North of Brazil.
➡Replicas are smaller tremors that follow after a strong earthquake.
The two tremors occurred less than a minute apart and collapsed buildings and houses in the capital Caracas and in other cities in the country.
The number of deaths due to the earthquakes in Venezuela rose this Saturday (27) to 1,430 people, according to an updated report from the Venezuelan government at 2:20 p.m. Brasília.
The balance released by the government also showed more than 3,000 injuries and 3,100 people left homeless due to the disaster.
The new balance was released by the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, in a statement to Venezuelan state media.
The United Nations (UN) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimate that the number of victims could be much higher, taking into account the strength of the earthquake, the lack of structure and the densely populated areas that were affected.
Earlier, a projection by the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated that more than 6 million people may have been affected by the tremors.
"Up to 6.8 million people may have been affected by the earthquakes," the organization said in a statement. The projections were based on population and damage analysis. The numbers include up to two million people in Caracas alone.
The United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Aid Office estimates that the number of people missing in the tragedy is more than 50,000.

Source: G1