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Aerial view of the site of a landslide in the Quetame municipality, Cundinamarca department, Colombia, July 18, 2023. /CFP
Rescue teams temporarily suspended efforts to search for survivors Tuesday after a landslide triggered by heavy rains left at least 15 people dead and more than a dozen missing in central Colombia, authorities said.
Several homes were destroyed and a major trade artery blocked after torrential rains hit the Quetame municipality in Colombia's Cundinamarca department late Monday.
"We have at this moment a count of 15 people who were found lifeless," firefighting captain Alvaro Farfan said in a video sent to the media Tuesday night, adding that there were six people injured.
Farfan said nightfall had forced rescue teams to suspend their search for potential survivors but that they would resume in the morning. Thirteen people remained missing.
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