UK sends a 68-strong search and rescue team and £2 million in aid to Venezuela

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x     The United Kingdom on Friday deployed a specialist search and rescue team of 68 people and announced an initial £2 million (about $2.7 million) in humanitarian funding to support the response to the earthquakes that devastated north-central Venezuela, where the latest official toll exceeds 580 dead and 2,900 injured. The UK's International Search and Rescue team (UK ISAR), made up of 68 personnel and six specialist dogs, departed from RAF Brize Norton on a Royal Air Force aircraft to