Race to Reach Trapped Colombia Quake Survivors Offers Hope
Authorities said nearly 400 people were still missing as crews searched unstable rubble and shifted toward recovery after the quake.
- On Friday, rescue workers in Pereira, Colombia, raced to free four people trapped in a collapsed hotel, offering a rare sign of hope nearly four days after the 7.4-magnitude earthquake.
- The 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck San Jose del Palmar in the Choco department on Monday, and scores of aftershocks have since hampered search operations in unstable debris.
- Authorities report at least 287 deaths and nearly 4,000 injuries, with nearly 400 still missing; Hernan Giraldo, father of 24-year-old Juan Felipe, waits at the site saying, "I'm waiting here to hug my son, alive."
- Facing his first major test after the disaster, President Abelardo De La Espriella visited Quibdo on Friday, vowing that reconstruction would proceed regardless of political alignment.
- Giovanni Rizzo, the Norwegian Refugee Council's Colombia director, warned the disaster risks worsening displacement for millions already dependent on aid, urging a shift to helping families rebuild schools.
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Race to reach trapped Colombia quake survivors offers hope
By Nelson Bocanegra, Luis Jaime Acosta and Julia Symmes Cobb PEREIRA/BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Rescuers in Colombia raced to free survivors still trapped under the rubble on Friday, four days after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the...
Race to free trapped quake survivor offers hope in Colombia
Rescue workers rushed to free a survivor Friday in Colombia amid the rubble left by a powerful earthquake nearly four days earlier that killed at least 285 people and injured 4,000. Some 400 people were still missing and tens of thousands of homes were damaged, leaving many Colombians sleeping in shelters or outside.
Race to reach trapped survivors offers hope in Colombia quake zone
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Rescuers raced against time in Colombia on Friday to free a man found alive beneath a collapsed hotel, a rare sign of hope nearly four days after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Andean nation in decades reduced neighbourhoods to rubble and left hundreds dead or missing. The operation in the coffee-region city of Pereira had become the main focus of a disaster response increasingly shifting from the search for survivors to the grim wo…
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