The body of rescuers that was present in the area of the landslide in the township of pueblo rico in the department of Risaralda found a girl clinging to her mother’s corpse.
Víctor Manuel Tamayo, governor of Risaralda, stated: “Around 2:00 in the followingnoon, three people might be rescued, including a girl who was hugging her mother’s body, who unfortunately is not alive. We will continue working to rescue as many people as possible, but the weather and the hours are once morest us”.
In the early hours of this Monday, the authorities that are in the area of the emergency that there are no more survivors on the public transport bus that he was swept away by an avalanche in the municipality of Pueblo Rico; The deceased might be more if the driver picked up passengers on his journey.
In the first hours, 12 bodies had been recovered, in the early hours of Monday eleven more were rescued, for a total of 23, and around noon President Gustavo Petro himself confirmed that the number of victims had risen to 27, including three minors. old.
Around 11 pm on Sunday, December 4, the authorities notified that the rescuers managed to clear the rear area of the Arauca company bus that was buried due to this collapse. As the hours go by, relief agencies are less optimistic regarding finding other people alive in the area.
In social networks The first images of this emergency were released, in which residents of the area and rescue authorities can already be seen carrying out the necessary maneuvers to help the people who are trapped, there is talk of plus 30 people who would be in the vehicles.
“A landslide has just come here from Pueblo Rico pa’ bajo, a western one covered, a car there is covered. What a wild tragedy,” said a man who recorded a video recounting what happened that appears on Twitter.
In the same recording of this event, a man is heard stating that his wife and sister-in-law were trapped in the vehicle they were traveling in, but fortunately, they managed to get out of the vehicle unharmed.
“The car where the woman and my sister-in-law were coming were covered, but they were able to get out of there, thank God, but there are people covered there,” said the man in the video that appears on Twitter.
Around 12 in the morning, the directors of the San Rafael de Pueblo Rico medical center confirmed to El Colombiano that an 8-year-old girl is the first fatality, the body was taken to the nearest morgue.
And it is that The rainy season continues to wreak havoc in different areas of the Colombian geography. For example, on November 10 in the municipality of Norte de Santander, called Villa caro (Vereda El Molino) harmed more than 20 families in the area.
“The 28 affected families from the village of El Molino are already housed at the Nuestra Señora del Rosario school, where they are being provided with psychosocial and medical care along with Civil Defense and health professionals,” said the government of this department.
And he added: “In the same way, the Colombian Red Cross team delivers emergency humanitarian aid to these families, aid that is added to the 200 that were sent by the Governor’s Office of Norte de Santander, which are being transported with support of Colombian Civil Defense”.
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