(Reuters)
1. POLICE RESCUE TEAM CARRYING LANDSLIDE VICTIM
2. VICTIM BEING PLACED INTO AMBULANCE
PUEBLO RICO, RISARALDA, COLOMBIA (DECEMBER 5, 2022) (RCN TV – No use Colombia / Telemundo / CNN Spanish / Univision / City TV Colombia)
3. VARIOUS OF RESCUE TEAMS DIGGING, LOOKING FOR VICTIMS
4. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) RISARALDA GOVERNOR, VICTOR TAMAYO, SAYING:
“Amongst the people we could rescue alive was a seven-year-old girl who is right now at the San Jorge de Pereira Hospital with some minor injuries. Unfortunately, we found her clinging to her (dead) mother. Her brother also died there, a boy a little over a year, during the major tragedy we are going through.”
5. EXCAVATOR REMOVING MUD
6. EXCAVATOR DIGGING OUT PART OF BUS
7. VARIOUS OF FORENSIC WORKERS IN DISASTER ZONE
PUEBLO RICO, RISARALDA, COLOMBIA (DECEMBER 5, 2022) (COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT TV – Access all)
8. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) COLOMBIAN INTERIOR MINISTER, ALFONSO PRADA, SAYING:
“The unfortunate news has made us very sad. We have already found 33 people dead, including three minors, and we have rescued nine people alive, four of them are in a critical condition.”
PUEBLO RICO, RISARALDA, COLOMBIA (DECEMBER 5, 2022) (RCN TV – No use Colombia / Telemundo / CNN Spanish / Univision / City TV Colombia)
9. VARIOUS OF PLACE WHERE LANDSLIDE HAPPENED
10. EXCAVATOR MOVING DIRT
11. RESCUE WORKERS IN DISASTER AREA
STORY: At least 33 people died when a landslide buried a bus in northwestern Colombia on Sunday (December 4), and nine have been rescued alive, the interior minister said.
The landslide, caused by strong rains, hit the vehicle between the villages of Pueblo Rico and Santa Cecilia in Risaralda province, about 230 km (140 miles) northwest of the capital Bogota.
“We have already found 33 people dead, including three minors, and we have rescued nine people alive, four of them are in a critical condition,” Interior Minister Alfonso Prada told reporters on Monday (December 5).
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro described the incident as a tragedy in a Twitter message.
The bus was traveling from Cali, Colombia’s third largest city, to the municipality of Condoto, in Choco province.
Colombia had been hit by an unusually heavy rainy season, blamed on the La Nina weather phenomenon.
Events linked to heavy rains have killed more than 216 people and left 538,000 homeless so far in 2022, according to government statistics. Another 48 people are still missing across the country, the figures show.
- 00:11Excellent.
- 00:2198.
- 00:39Yes, within the people we were able to rescue alive.
- 00:41To a 7-year-old girl who.
- 00:44At this moment we have her in the San Jorge de Pereira Hospital with some minor injuries and unfortunately we found her.
- 00:52Clinging to her mom where too.
- 00:55Died.
- 00:57A little boy a little over a year old brother of her in one.
- 01:00Tragedy.
- 01:01Capital.
- 01:02Faced with this situation we are going through.
- 01:28The unfortunate news has us very sad that we have already identified.
- 01:3333 people killed.
- 01:35Among them 3 minors.
- 01:38We have rescued 9 people alive.
- 01:43Four of them are currently in critical condition.
