Landslides in Colombia

This item appears on page 63 of the June 2017 issue.

Heavy rains continued in Colombia into April, causing further flooding and more landslides. On April 19, at least 17 people were killed in the city of Manizales, in western-central Colombia, when a landslide destroyed homes built on the side of a steep hill. The city had received the monthly average of rainfall in a single night.