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<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 ...
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<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 ...
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<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 ...
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<p>A bridge under construction has been destroyed after a partial collapse earlier in the year killed nine people.</p>
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<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 ...
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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 ...
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<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 ...
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<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 ...
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<p>Systra has been awarded the design of the first metro line in Bogotá, 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 ...
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<p>Paleontologists working in South America have described an ancient sea turtle that could be the key to understanding the murky evolutionary history of turtles, and it is at least 25 million years older than any other sea turtle fossil known. Edwin Cadena ...
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