Heavy toll after a landslide in Colombia

At least eight people died and about 20 others are missing in a landslide that occurred on Monday evening on the road linking Bogota to southeastern Colombia, the services reported on Tuesday. emergency.

“We have six dead at the moment. Two minors and four adults. The municipality has just informed us that there are two other bodies buried,” Colonel Jorge Díaz, local director of civil protection, told the broadcast Noticias Caracol.

Firefighters in the region reported “20 missing” in the landslide, caused by heavy rains, near a toll station in the municipality of Puente Quetame, about sixty kilometers from Bogota.