Rescue teams in colombia are continuing to search through tonnes of monday before anyone who survived devastating mudslides in the amazon basin. At least 200 people have been killed but with hundreds of others injured or missing, the colombian president says it is impossible to know what the eventual death toll will be. The torrent of mud engulfed the town of mocoa, where Rescue Effo Rts the town of mocoa, where rescue efforts are being hampered by bad weather. Richard lister reports. Mocoa is a place of mud and misery. When the rolling wall of water and debris rushed through here on friday night, it swept away houses, cars, trees and people. Whole families died here. The painstaking search for survivors is continuing. Rescue workers moving quietly through flattened neighbourhoods hoping for Signs Of Life in the wreckage. Nothing here. With every hour that passes, hopes of finding more people alive diminish. Within hours of the deluge, Message Boards went up listing the dead and the missing. Many of those unaccounted for are children. We are searching for a baby, she says, a little baby, we cannot find him anywhere. This man has lost his daughter. I hope somebody has her, he says, shes called luisa. Closest to the river, the streets are now boulder fields, full of people trying to retrieve what they can of their lives. The shock of this disaster is still sinking in. The rains that caused this flood were unusually heavy, but deforestation upstream played a part, too. This town of 40,000 people is still without power or fresh water. The homeless need housing, the infrastructure needs to be restored, and the wreckage cleared. Deep in the amazon basin, mocoa was hard to reach before. Now, with roads and bridges washed away, the challenge is even greater. Richard lister, bbc news. Earlier, i spoke with dimitri odonnell, a journalist in bogota whos following this story, and who gave me this update. President sandals has returned to mocoa in the last couple of hours and released the latest official figures from the grief stricken region, saying 207 people are now confirmed dead. They have identified 85 bodies, 43 of whom are children. There are still more than 300 people missing and 400 people are reported injured. Theres a big team of Estate Agencies in mocoa right now state agencies. 1200 at the last count including the army, police, navy, Civil Defence and the red cross and they are doing all to
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