Argentine footballer Lucas Trejo has lost his wife and two children after last week’s devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, his club confirmed on Sunday.
Trejo, who plays for Venezuelan second-division side Club Sport Marítimo La Guaira, spent three days searching for his wife, Yanina, and their children, Aaron and Ainhoa, before rescue workers recovered their bodies from the rubble.
In a statement posted on Instagram, the club expressed condolences to the player and his family.
> “Club Sport Marítimo La Guaira deeply mourns the irreparable loss of our player’s wife and children,” the club wrote alongside a photograph of the family.
The 38-year-old footballer was attending a team training camp in Caracas when twin earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening.
According to CNN, Trejo immediately travelled back to his home in La Guaira, one of the areas worst affected by the disaster, only to find widespread destruction.
His brother-in-law, Ricardo Ardiles, described the heartbreaking scene.
“He found absolutely nothing of what the building itself had been,” Ardiles told CNN.
Venezuelan authorities said on Sunday that nearly 1,500 people have been confirmed dead, while tens of thousands remain unaccounted for following the earthquakes.
