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BBC NEWS   03 April 2023   Colombia   Nevado del Ruiz  
<p>Families living on the upper slopes of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia are being evacuated after an increase of seismic activity.<br />Colombia's Geological Service (SGC) has raised the alert level from yellow to orange, warning that an eruption ...
BBC NEWS   05 December 2022   Colombia   Risaralda  
<p>A landslide on a road in the province of Risaralda in western Colombia has killed at least 27 people, the country's president has announced.<br />A bus full of passengers was among several vehicles buried under mud and rocks, which tumbled down a hillside ...
Voice of America   22 April 2019   Colombia   Cauca  
<p>BOGOTA — The death toll from a weekend landslide in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca has risen to 28 people, the country's disaster relief agency said on Monday.<br>The landslide, caused by heavy rains, occurred early on Sunday morning in a ...
BBC NEWS   22 April 2019   Colombia   Rosas / Cauca  
<p>At least 17 people have been killed by a landslide on Sunday in south-western Colombia, officials say.</p> <p>Five others were injured and several houses destroyed in the town of Rosas in the Cauca region.</p> <p>The landslide happened after days of torrential ...
Filed under: Natural Hazards
BBC NEWS   12 July 2018   Colombia  
<p>A bridge under construction has been destroyed after a partial collapse earlier in the year killed nine people.</p>
The Weather Channel   06 June 2018   Colombia   Cauca river  
<p>A dam under construction in Colombia has caused big problems for thousands who live downstream. Mudslides caused plugged water-release tunnels, sending water levels up and leading to evacuations. Locals now worry daily about what could happen if additional ...
RT Question More   22 January 2018   Colombia  
<p>At least 13 people died when the bus they were traveling on was pushed by a landslide into a deep abyss off a highway in southwestern Colombia, authorities announced. Rescuers only managed to reach it the next day.</p> <p>About 5,000 cubic meters (176,000 ...
CNN   16 January 2018   Colombia   Americas  
<div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph"><p class="zn-body__paragraph speakable">At least ten people were killed Monday after a bridge collapsed near Bogota, Colombia, according to the country's Civil Defense authorities.</p><div class="zn-body__paragraph ...
The Guardian   03 April 2017   Colombia   Americas  
<p>Colombian rescuers have been searching frantically for hundreds of missing people after the southern city of Mocoa was engulfed on Saturday by a huge landslide of mud, rocks and gushing waters that swept away homes and cars and killed more than 20 people.</p> <p>The ...
The construction index   21 March 2017   Colombia   Americas  
<p>Systra has been awarded the design of the first metro line in Bogot&aacute;, Columbia.</p> <p>The aim is for the elevated line to come into use by 2023, its first metro line.</p> <p>The award of the contract to Systra and its local partner follows earlier ...
Filed under: Construction News