BOGOTÁ — A
landslide engulfed a road Sunday in
Colombia, killing three people and leaving
some 20 trapped in the mud, authorities said.
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Crews were
searching for people riding on a bus and a motorcycle that were caught up in the
accident in a remote area of a municipality called Pueblo Rico in northwest
Colombia.
“Nine rescued,
three fatalities and an estimated 20 who remain to be found. It is a tragedy,”
President Gustavo Petro wrote on Twitter.
Civil defense
officials said one of the dead was a girl aged about seven.
One survivor said
the driver of the bus managed to dodge the worst of the landslide.
“Part of it was
coming down and the bus was a little bit back from that. The bus driver was
backing up when it all came crashing down,” Andres Ibarguen told radio station
Lloro Stereo.
The bus had set out
from the city of Cali with 25 passengers, civil defense officials said.
This rainy season
that began in August is Colombia’s worst in 40 years, according to the
government, causing accidents that have left more than 270 people dead.
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