Our Colombia-based reporter Genevieve Glatsky witnesses the search for survivors after a five-story apartment building in the city of Cali collapsed in an earthquake.
“We heard them screaming,” said one rescuer in Cali, where emergency workers and volunteers are racing against time to find the living trapped in the rubble.
Firefighters rescuing Diana Marcela Troncoso from a collapsed building in Cali, Colombia, on Tuesday, more than 24 hours after a powerful earthquake struck the western part of the country.
A pair of brothers who lost their mother and other family members in Venezuela and were profiled by The New York Times have now survived deadly quakes in two countries.
Deivid Delfín, 44, with his two surviving sons, Winder, 17, left, and Deivi, 15, right, in Venezuela in June, after twin earthquakes killed the boys’ mother, younger brother and grandmother.
President Abelardo De La Espriella, left, and his vice president, José Manuel Restrepo, led an earthquake response meeting in Bogotá, the Colombian capital, on Monday.
The magnitude 7.4 quake hit the western part of the country, shaking Bogotá, Cali, Medellín and other cities, just weeks after quakes of similar intensity devastated parts of neighboring Venezuela.
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