At least 33 people died in a landslide on Friday in an indigenous community in northwest Colombia, according to an updated government report released this Saturday.
“I deeply regret the death of 33 people in this tragedy, in its mostly girls and boys, according to preliminary reports from the territory. All our solidarity with the department of Chocó and the families of the victims,” Vice President Francia Márquez wrote on the X network. Previously, the authorities had recorded 23 deaths and 20 injuries.
The collapse occurred on Friday afternoon and buried several vehicles that were stopped, apparently due to an avalanche that previously blocked the highway between Medellín and Quibdó, the capital of Chocó.
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There were also, according to witnesses cited by local media, fifty people who were taking shelter from the rain in a house when the avalanche came.