Perilous
Times and Climate Change
Colombian mudslide victims buried alive in own homes
* From: AFP
* November 06, 2011 8:50AM
AT least eight people have been killed by mudslides sweeping over
parts of towns in western Colombia following ongoing heavy rain.
In one of the incidents that hit Quindio and Caldas departments,
four people were buried alive as they slept in their homes in El
Castillo, a hamlet in the rural town of Calarca. Another nine
people were injured, Red Cross officials said.
Four people were killed in the city of Manizales, the capital of
Caldas, when another landslide swept into homes where about 32
families live, leaving four people dead and an unknown number
missing.
Twelve people were rescued in that incident, the Red Cross said.
Colombia is having one of its worst rainy seasons in memory. As of
Monday it had left 37 people dead, 43 injured, and seven missing
and had forced the evacuations of at least 245,420 people.