Several homes were destroyed and a major trade artery blocked after torrential rains hit the Quetame municipality in Colombia’s Cundinamarca department late Monday theSun theSundaily landslide Quetame destruction Colombia WorldNews
A member of the rescuing team works at the site of a landslide in the Quetame municipality, Cundinamarca department, Colombia, on July 18, 2023. - AFPPIX: Rescue teams temporarily suspended efforts to search for survivors Tuesday after a landslide triggered by heavy rains left at least 15 people dead and more than a dozen missing in central Colombia, authorities said.
Farfan said nightfall had forced rescue teams to suspend their search for potential survivors but that they would resume in the morning. Thirteen people remained missing. Mud was piled a meter high, up to two meters in some places, Parrado told El Dorado Radio, making for a “very complex” search and rescue operation.The army announced it was deploying about 80 soldiers to aid in the search effort.Diaz, the civil defense official, said the landslide buried part of a road linking Bogota to the southeast of the country -- one of the country’s main freight routes.
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