Argentine soccer player Lucas Trejo loses wife, two children in Venezuela earthquake building collapse: report
Lucas Trejo was in Caracas with his team when twin earthquakes struck, collapsing his family's apartment building in Playa Grande, La Guaira.
The 74-hour search for the family of Argentine soccer star Lucas Trejo ended this weekend after rescue crews recovered the bodies of his wife and two children from the rubble of the apartment building that collapsed in Wednesday's twin earthquakes.Trejo, 38, a center back for Venezuelan club Sport Maritimo de La Guaira, was in Caracas with his team when earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.
5 struck the country's northern coast.After learning his family's apartment building had collapsed in Playa Grande, La Guaira, he immediately traveled to the disaster zone to join the search."Our building in Playa Grande collapsed.
I don't know anything about my family," Trejo wrote on Instagram during the early hours of the search. "Please pray for them and share this message in case someone saw them. I want to believe they weren't there."
33 RESCUED FROM VENEZUELAN RUBBLE: SURVIVAL WINDOW DESPERATELY FADING WITH NEARLY 50,000 MISSINGTrejo's father and brother traveled from Argentina to assist firefighters, military personnel and volunteers searching through the debris.The search ended after rescuers recovered the bodies of Trejo's wife, Yanina Maranella, and their children, Aaron and Ainhoa.The tragedy prompted an outpouring of support from across the South American soccer community.
EX-MLB PLAYER SAYS WIFE DIED IN DEVASTATING VENEZUELA EARTHQUAKESFellow Argentine footballer Edson Tortolero, a close friend of Trejo's, mourned the family's deaths."Today my heart breaks into a thousand pieces," Tortolero wrote. "There are no words that can ease so much pain.
I ask God to give Lucas strength to endure this unimaginable loss."Club Sport Maritimo de La Guaira confirmed the deaths in a statement on Sunday."We join the grief that overwhelms player Lucas Trejo for the passing of his wife, Yanina Maranella, and of his children, Aaron and Ainhoa Trejo," the club said.
"Peace to their souls and comfort for Lucas and all his loved ones."Trejo's family is among the victims of the earthquakes that d
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