BOGOTA (Reuters) – A mudslide introduced on by heavy rains in northwest Colombia killed at the least 23 individuals and injured dozens on a busy freeway, authorities mentioned on Saturday.
The mudslide, which occurred Friday afternoon, coated a roadway that connects the cities of Quibdo and Medellin within the Pacific province of Choco.
No less than 35 individuals had been additionally injured and an unknown variety of persons are nonetheless lacking as mud utterly engulfed a number of automobiles on the highway, authorities mentioned.
“The extraction of bodies continues,” the governor of Choco mentioned in an announcement shared on social media.
Photographs on social media confirmed the second a big piece of land dislodged from a mountain and fell on prime of a number of automobiles that had been transferring alongside the flooded highway under.
The highway has been closed by Colombia’s Nationwide Unit for Catastrophe Threat Administration (UNGRD).