The Vatican is considering allowing Pope Francis to visit Mocoa, the city in southern Colombia that lost hundreds of its inhabitants in mudslides last week, reported Caracol Radio. Citing sources…
Colombian officials on Friday formally abandoned the search for survivors of floods that killed at least 314 people in the small southern city of Mocoa, though 106 people remain listed…
The mayor of Mocoa, the town in south Colombia that lost at least 300 inhabitants in a mudslide on Sunday, wants the military to assume public security tasks after reports of looting. At…
In one of Colombia’s most cynical drug busts, police found 500 kilograms of marijuana in a truck whose driver said to be delivering emergency aid to Mocoa, the town where hundreds died…
Having already found the remains of more than 300 victims in Mocoa, rescue workers are still looking for eight missing foreigners in the disaster-struck southern Colombia town. Among the missing…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office ordered political leaders from Putumayo on Tuesday to give testimony on the flooding that destroyed large parts of the department’s capital in spite of early warnings. The…
While Colombia mourned Saturday’s flooding tragedy in Mocoa, Putumayo, rescue workers resumed rescue efforts at dawn on Sunday amid decreasing chances of finding survivors. Until then, operations were halted as…
As night fell after one of Colombia’s darkest days in recent history, rescue workers had pulled 234 dead from the mud and rubble left by an avalanche that devastated the southern…
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday declared a state of emergency in the southern city of Mocoa after mudslides killed at least 154 people while hundreds were reported missing. While visiting the…