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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/homes-buried-in-landslide-tragedy.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Residents search for survivors in Bello, northwestern Colombia, after the landslide" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-homes-buried-in-landslide-tragedy.jpg" alt="Residents search for survivors in Bello, northwestern Colombia, after the landslide"/></a></p>
<p>More than 100 people were feared dead following a landslide that buried a poor area during Colombia&#8217;s heaviest rains in decades.</p>
<p>The rains that triggered Sunday&#8217;s landslide in the Bello, a suburb of Medellin in Antioquia state, have also driven thousands from their homes, damaged coffee and flower crops and blocked the two-lane highways that are mountainous Colombia&#8217;s commercial backbone.</p>
<p>Rescuers have so far recovered 23 bodies, including 11 children.</p>
<p>Authorities said nine of the children were playing in a park when the landslide struck.</p>
<p>Claudia Patricia Molina, 37, lost her home when the hillside came crashing down with a roar that sounded &#8220;as if someone had placed a bomb&#8221;. She was about four streets away visiting friends when the slide struck.</p>
<p>Thirty brick homes were buried by at least 1.7 million cubic feet of earth, John Rendon, disaster co-ordinator for Antioquia, said.</p>
<p>Interior minister German Vargas said more than 100 people were missing. That brought the death toll from floods and mudslides generated by this year&#8217;s rainfall to 199, 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.</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>They prompted President Juan Manuel Santos to announce he was cancelling a planned trip to Cancun, Mexico, to take part in global climate talks.</p>
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