{"id":307142,"date":"2017-04-02T05:56:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T05:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=307142"},"modified":"2017-04-02T05:56:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T05:56:47","slug":"colombia-landslides-more-than-100-die-after-heavy-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/colombia-landslides-more-than-100-die-after-heavy-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia landslides: More than 100 die after heavy rains"},"content":{"rendered":"
Landslides have killed at least 112 people in south-west Colombia and left many more injured, says President Juan Manuel Santos.<\/p>\n
Hours of heavy rains overnight caused rivers to burst their banks, flooding homes with mud in Putumayo province.<\/p>\n
An unknown number of people are missing. One army officer said the main local hospital was struggling to cope.<\/p>\n
Mr Santos, who has travelled to the area, said troops had been deployed as part of a national emergency response.<\/p>\n
The national fire service said at least 190 had been injured.<\/p>\n
The region’s governor, Sorrel Aroca, told Colombian media that whole neighbourhoods had been buried.<\/p>\n