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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/120-feared-dead-after-landslide.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Residents search for survivors at La Gabriela in Bello, Colombia" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-120-feared-dead-after-landslide.jpg" alt="Residents search for survivors at La Gabriela in Bello, Colombia"/></a></p>
<p>Rescue workers in Colombia have recovered 20 bodies but said more than 100 people remain missing feared dead after a landslide that buried a poor city suburb in tons of sodden soil.</p>
<p>The landslide in Medellin was triggered by Colombia&#8217;s worst rain in at least 40 years, which have driven thousands from their homes and damaged coffee and flower crops.</p>
<p>Thirty brick homes were buried by at least 1.7 million cubic feet of earth, said John Rendon, disaster co-ordinator for Antioquia state where the suburb of Bello is located.</p>
<p>&#8220;The weather was good yesterday, and also today, but the soil is saturated and it gave,&#8221; he said on Monday.</p>
<p>Interior minister German Vargas said 20 bodies had been recovered and that more than 100 people remain missing.</p>
<p>That brought the death toll from floods and mudslides triggered by this year&#8217;s rainfall to 196, said the director of Colombia&#8217;s national disaster management office, Luz Amanda Pulido.</p>
<p>Last year, 110 people died in rainfall-related calamities, while 48 were killed in 2008, Colombian Red Cross director of national relief operations Carlos Ivan Marquez said recently.</p>
<p>This year&#8217;s rains &#8211; exacerbated by the La Nina weather phenomenon &#8211; are the heaviest in the 42 years since the country&#8217;s weather service was created and started keeping records, agency director Ricardo Lozano said.</p>
<p>The national government says 1.6 million people have either lost their homes or suffered partial damage. About 70% to 80% live in inundated flood plains and have not abandoned them &#8220;because they don&#8217;t want to leave their homes and belongings for fear of losing everything&#8221;, Ms Pulido said.</p>
<p>In Antioquia, nearly five out of six municipalities have declared emergencies due to the rains.</p>
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