The death toll from Venezuela's twin earthquakes has climbed to 3,685, with 16,740 others injured and 17,907 displaced, CNN reported Tuesday, citing the latest government figures.

Although recovery efforts continue in affected areas, many families are still waiting to learn the whereabouts of their loved ones. Tuesday's figures did not include an updated count of people still missing, according to CNN.

Successive earthquakes struck northern Venezuela on June 24, registering magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5. The shallow, powerful quakes damaged or destroyed tens of thousands of buildings, making La Guaira state the country's hardest-hit region.

In the mountains of La Guaira state, workers excavated new trenches at a cemetery to bury hundreds of people killed in the quakes. Many of the bodies being laid to rest remain unidentified.

CNN observed heavy machinery working at La Esperanza cemetery Monday, while personnel wearing blue protective clothing moved coffins into the ground and prepared additional graves.

Satellite images from spatial intelligence company Vantor show more than 20 rows of freshly dug trenches, each large enough to hold multiple caskets side by side.

A cemetery worker told CNN that the cemetery has dug around 500 new burial plots in response to the emergency and reserved an area with about 150 graves for unidentified victims.