Land sliding leaves 10 dead in Colombia

Terra closed from a mountain in the city of Bello, near Medellin, and covered several houses. The population is alerted to leave the place in the face of the alerts of new landslides. Sliding in Colombia leaves 10 dead and 15 missing Jaime Saldariaga / AFP at least ten people died, eight were injured and at least 15 are missing after a landslide on Tuesday (24) in the Colombian municipality of Bello, neighboring Medellin, the Regional Government told. ✅ Click here to follow the G1 international news channel on WhatsApp after announcing the recovery of ten buried bodies, the Governor of the Antioch Department, Andrés Julián Rendón, asked people to be removed from this area in the face of new landslide alerts. “All the mechanisms were activated to find the people under the Earth,” said Lorena González, Mayor of Bello, in a video published on Social Network X. Images of an AFP reporter show the rescue work between the land that closed from a mountain and covered several houses. The landslide was caused by heavy rains that overflowed a nearby stream, according to the authorities. In the early hours of Tuesday (24), videos of residents on social networks have circulated in which some streets of Bello appear flooded. The emergency represents “a tragedy, a pain that the whole department today cries and feels,” said the governor of the Department of Antioch, whose capital is Medellin. Read more truck is hung by the highway in China after a bridge collapses truck is hanging by the highway in China after Bridge collapsed

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