Rescuers Work as Window Narrows to Find Quake Survivors

Rescuers worked under floodlights early Saturday in the desperate effort to find survivors of the devastating earthquakes in northern Venezuela, as the death toll rose to 920 and thousands of injured people overwhelmed hospitals. Anguished survivors streamed to medical facilities in Caracas, the capital, and the nearby state of La Guaira in search of loved ones, and makeshift wards were set up in streets and hospital parking lots. At one hospital in Caracas, itself damaged by the quakes, the smell of decomposing bodies permeated the air. The chaotic scenes laid bare the extent to which Venezuela’s government was unprepared for…