Venezuela Double Survivor
- Ricardo Mazalan - AP
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FILE - The flood ravaged neighborhood of Los Corales, in Vargas state just north of the capital Caracas, Dec. 19, 1999.
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Venezuelan merchant Grian Serrano has twice survived major natural disasters in the same place. He lived through the deadly 1999 mudslides in La Guaira and two powerful earthquakes that hit the region. Serrano, his son and his mother were buried under rubble Wednesday when their apartment building collapsed during the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes. The government says the quakes have killed more than 1,700 people and injured more than 5,000, mainly in La Guaira. Serrano believes the area is cursed, but experts say the terrain is risky for construction. After losing everything, Serrano vows never to live in La Guaira again.
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