UN says over 50,000 missing after Venezuela quakes

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  This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Pete Ross and in the early hours of Saturday the 27th of June, these are our main stories.

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  The search for earthquake survivors in Venezuela continues as the UN confirms more than 50,000 people are still missing.

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  We start this podcast in Venezuela where the number of dead after Wednesday's

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  devastating twin earthquakes is rising dramatically as more bodies are recovered from collapsed buildings.

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  The latest official figures say over 900 people have been killed.

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  The United Nations says more than 50,000 people are still unaccounted for.

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  Those figures alone give us a sense of the scale of this disaster.

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