Colombia Hopes for Miracles as Search for Quake Victims Goes On
The World Bank said it is disbursing emergency funds and assessing losses as rescuers search for 379 missing people.
- Colombia's strongest earthquake this century killed at least 287 people and left 379 missing, with nearly 13,000 homes destroyed across the coffee-growing region and Pacific coast, President Abelardo de la Espriella said Thursday.
- The World Bank pledged $200 million for disaster response on Friday, though de la Espriella's administration faces criticism after allegedly blocking Mexican rescue teams, a move Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum noted Thursday.
- Despite the critical 72-hour window passing, rescuers persist searching for survivors including 24-year-old Juan Felipe Giraldo, whose father Hernan Giraldo vowed to continue digging through the ruined hotel.
- Colombians outside the quake zone have mobilized in massive numbers to assist victims, with hundreds of volunteers in Bogota forming human chains to pass food and supplies to a sorting area.
- With the morgue in Cali damaged by the quake, authorities are transporting bodies to the nearby city of Palmira, where families have gathered to await news of missing loved ones.
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Bogotá, 14 Aug (EFE).- The number of people killed by the earthquake that struck Colombia on Monday increased to 288, three more than in this morning's bulletin, and the number of missing persons was reduced from 379 to 202, according to the last report of this Friday by the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD). https://holanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08rss-efe0a4bb47f-5d4e-42fa-b606-5cdfd8822302-hd-web.mp4 The entity did not …
The emergency teams have also managed to rescue 354 people alive, according to the most recent report, during the work carried out after the earthquake.
Colombia quake rescuers find signs of life as rebuilding begins
Rescuers in Pereira and Cali reported signs of life beneath collapsed buildings after Colombia's deadly earthquake. The discovery has kept hopes alive even as the country shifts towards relief, shelters and reconstruction.
Rescue teams ran out of time in Colombia on Friday to remove four people from the rubble of a hotel, in a rare sign of hope almost four days after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the country in recent decades reduced neighborhoods to ruins and left hundreds dead or missing.
The first aid workers remain fully mobilized in Colombia in the midst of the rubble, after the earthquake that killed at least 281 people in the west of the country.
Colombia hopes for miracles as search for quake victims goes on
Volunteers and rescuers persevered with the grueling task of digging through the rubble, looking for any signs of life after the critical 72-hour window passed. The strongest quake to hit the South American nation this century devastated the western cities of Cali and Pereira and destroyed nearly 13,000 homes across the coffee-growing region and along the coast. At least 287 people are dead, while thousands more are injured and some 379 people a…
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