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You can see Soldiers carrying a corpse following mudslides caused by heavy rains,
in Mocoa earlier today
According to The Sun The surge swept away houses, bridges, vehicles and trees, leaving piles
of wrecked timber and brown mud, army photographs from the town of Mocoa
showed.
Governor Sorrel Aroca of the Putumayo department called the development
“an unprecedented tragedy,” telling W Radio there were “hundreds of families we
have not yet found, and whole neighbourhoods missing.”
Carlos Ivan Marquez, director of the National Disaster Risk Management
Unit, said that the mudslides were caused by the rise of the Mocoa River and
three tributaries.
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