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Medellin, Colombia (AFP) Dec 7, 2010 Colombian rescue officials on Tuesday said they have retrieved the bodies of 30 people who died in a massive weekend mudslide, with scores of victims still missing. "They have recovered 30 bodies and rescue operations are continuing," said Jorge Humberto Salazar, a spokesman with the government of the department of Antioquia. Some 400 rescuers have labored since Sunday's disaster, as hope diminished of finding survivors alive. President Juan Manuel Santos was due to visit the rescue operations on Tuesday as the first funerals of victims of the tragedy were set to take place later in the day. Officials said a wall of mud slid down a sodden hillside on Sunday, burying about three dozen homes near Medellin, Colombia's second-largest city, some 245 kilometers (150 miles) northwest of Bogota. The tragedy occurred after a hillside perched above the La Gabriela neighborhood in the town of Bello gave way. Colombia has endured the worst downpours in decades which have left nearly 200 people dead and 1.5 million homeless from flooding and landslides.
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Twenty dead, over 100 missing in Colombia mudslideMedellin, Colombia (AFP) Dec 6, 2010 Emergency crews clawed through tons of mud Monday in a desperate bid to rescue 105 people missing in a landslide in Colombia that has claimed at least 20 lives. Officials in the Colombian state of Antioquia, said that by 1500 GMT some 20 bodies had been recovered, after a wall of mud on Sunday slid down a sodden hillside, burying about three dozen homes. "So far, we have found just 20 pe ... read more |
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