residents up to mules for transport in the city of Utica more than 200 families were left homeless in the Central Colombian city Utica after a mudslide swept away their homes.Heavy rains caused the local river, its banks, sending torrents of water to break mud and stones through the city streets.
Officials said an elderly woman died and two men do not exist.
Meteorologists say that the Columbia double five provinces have seen the average snowfall in April.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos saying Utica check, the damage that would visit the city.
Utica Mayor Marcel Hernandez said 238 families "had been left with nothing".
Constant threat
Officials said that more than 80% of the city had been engulfed by the mudslide.
Residents told how she had alarmed by the ringing of the bells for the approaching mudslide.
Some residents returned to their homes, some properties to saveMost were able to flee their homes in time.
The Government said that there is a group of experts at Utica assess whether it returned safely for residents of the city, or if it could sink holes or other geological faults would send.
More rain for the area forecast, the way to an other mudslide firefighters not exclude as meteorologists.
Government officials in Cundinamarca, where Utica is located, said that they decide in the next few days whether he would rebuild the entire city to safer, higher ground.
His heavy rains prepared are not limited in Cundinamarca. Central Tolima province have placed officials of the town of Honda on high alert as the plain of the River, the Magdalena continues to rise.
12 Major highways were closed because of the persistent rain and flooding nationwide,.
Time Colombia has a particularly wet winter, where officials say that has affected almost three million people in the country.
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