Affecting in the city of mocoa in the sounth of the country. Sangita myska reports. Urged on by soldiers, People Living in the city of mocoa run for their lives. There is no time to collect possessions, because this is whats coming. Deadly mudslides have engulfed parts of southern colombia, submerging homes, businesses and people. Over 150 are dead, and hundreds more are injured. As rescuers continue the search for survivors, the president today declared a State Of Emergency across the region. Unusually heavy rains flooded the mocoa river, bursting its banks and those of three tributaries. It created what eyewitnesses called an avalanche of mud that has pulled buildings apart, devastating towns and leaving residents amazed and appalled in equal measure. As families continue to flee, the Emergency Services pick their way through the debris in treacherous conditions. The red cross have tonight warned that the death toll is likely to rise. Earlier i spoke to bogota based journalist dimitr
Affecting in the city of mocoa in the sounth of the country. Sangita myska reports. Urged on by soldiers, People Living in the city of mocoa run for their lives. There is no time to collect possessions, because this is whats coming. Deadly mudslides have engulfed parts of southern colombia, submerging homes, businesses and people. Over 150 are dead, and hundreds more are injured. As rescuers continue the search for survivors, the president today declared a State Of Emergency across the region. Unusually heavy rains flooded the mocoa river, bursting its banks and those of three tributaries. It created what eyewitnesses called an avalanche of mud that has pulled buildings apart, devastating towns and leaving residents amazed and appalled in equal measure. As families continue to flee, the Emergency Services pick their way through the debris in treacherous conditions. The red cross have tonight warned that the death toll is likely to rise. Earlier i spoke to bogota based journalist dimitr
Affecting in the city of mocoa in the sounth of the country. Sangita myska reports. Urged on by soldiers, People Living in the city of mocoa run for their lives. There is no time to collect possessions, because this is whats coming. Deadly mudslides have engulfed parts of southern colombia, submerging homes, businesses and people. Over 150 are dead, and hundreds more are injured. As rescuers continue the search for survivors, the president today declared a State Of Emergency across the region. Unusually heavy rains flooded the mocoa river, bursting its banks and those of three tributaries. It created what eyewitnesses called an avalanche of mud that has pulled buildings apart, devastating towns and leaving residents amazed and appalled in equal measure. As families continue to flee, the Emergency Services pick their way through the debris in treacherous conditions. The red cross have tonight warned that the death toll is likely to rise. Earlier i spoke to bogota based journalist dimitr
Affecting in the city of mocoa in the sounth of the country. Sangita myska reports. Urged on by soldiers, People Living in the city of mocoa run for their lives. There is no time to collect possessions, because this is whats coming. Deadly mudslides have engulfed parts of southern colombia, submerging homes, businesses and people. Over 150 are dead, and hundreds more are injured. As rescuers continue the search for survivors, the president today declared a State Of Emergency across the region. Unusually heavy rains flooded the mocoa river, bursting its banks and those of three tributaries. It created what eyewitnesses called an avalanche of mud that has pulled buildings apart, devastating towns and leaving residents amazed and appalled in equal measure. As families continue to flee, the Emergency Services pick their way through the debris in treacherous conditions. The red cross have tonight warned that the death toll is likely to rise. Earlier i spoke to bogota based journalist dimitr
Good morning. Its seven in the morning in singapore, midnight in london and six in the evening in southern colombia, where rescue teams are continuing to search through tons of mud and debris for anyone who survived the devastating mudslide. Its happened in the City Of Mocoa. Over 200 people have been confirmed dead. Hundreds are still missing and five villages have been destroyed. Richard lister has the story. 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 sounds 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 missing. Many of those unaccounted for are children. We are searching for a ba