Anguished families left to identify Venezuela quake victims at makeshift morgue - BBC News

The disaster has overwhelmed local services, with bodies put outside or in tents for identification.

Image source, AFP via Getty ImagesImage caption, Families face long waits at a port facility transformed into a morgue in La Guaira

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At a port storage facility transformed into a makeshift morgue in La Guaira, the same scene repeats itself again and again.

Families - many of whom have already spent days searching hospitals, shelters and rubble - wait hours to try and confirm the deaths of their loved ones.

As the death toll of Venezuela's twin earthquakes surpasses 2,600, officials face the challenge of not only recovering victims, but identifying them.