Footballer’s wife dies shielding baby in Venezuela earthquakes as family hail her a hero

A Venezuelan mother who used her own body to shield her one-year-old during the pair of powerful earthquakes that struck on June 24 has died, relatives and local reports say. The tremors, measured at 7.2 and 7.5, caused widespread building collapses and heavy casualties. Scale of the disaster Rescue teams have been working across hard-hit…