Rockslide Hits Searchers; 41 Die
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An avalanche of mud and rocks killed at least 41 people--many of them searching for bodies from a previous landslide--in a town in the Andean mountains of western Colombia. Red Cross and civil defense workers, firefighters and municipal officials were working in Argelia to extract a small group trapped by an earlier landslide when tons of rocks and earth came crashing down on the rescue site. Argelia’s mayor said 41 bodies were found and nine people were missing.
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