Wife and children of Argentine soccer player Lucas Trejo killed in Venezuela earthquakes

Trejo described his desperate attempts to dig through the rubble to find his family; the wife of another soccer player, Hector Bello, died shielding their baby when the earthquake struck.

An Argentine soccer player for a Venezuelan team lost his wife and two young children in the powerful twin earthquakes that struck the country last week.

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Before their deaths were confirmed, Lucas Trejo described to Noticias Telemundo how he was “going through the rubble with my hands” searching for his wife, Yanina, and their young son and daughter.

Noticias Telemundo confirmed the deaths with Trejo’s soccer club, Club Sport Marítimo de La Guaira, which mourned the tragic loss of their player’s family.