Handout picture released by the Government of Choco press office showing the area of a landslide in the road between Quibdo and Medellin, Choco Department, Colombia, on January 12, 2024. (Photo by Handout / GOBERNACION DE CHOCO / AFP)
Bogota: At least 23 people were killed and another 20 injured in a landslide in an indigenous community in northwestern Colombia, local officials said.
"It is already a fact: 23 people dead and 20 people injured," Jaime Herrera, mayor of the Carmen de Atrato municipality, told Blu Radio.
Earlier, officials had put the toll in Friday's landslide, which hit a road linking the cities of Medellin and Quibdo, at 18 dead and 30 injured.
