On the evening of April 1st, torrential rain began to pour from the sky in the Colombian city of Mocoa. In only a few hours 129mm of water would fall, swelling the nearby Mocoa, Mulato and Sangoyaco ...

Colombia's President has declared an "economic, social and ecological emergency" as rescuers searched for hundreds of missing people after the southern city of Mocoa was engulfed on Saturday by a huge ...

MOCOA, Colombia-- People were caught off guard when a devastating flash flood surged through a small city in southern Colombia, but not everyone was surprised. Government agencies, land use experts, ...

MOCOA, Colombia --After an avalanche of mud buried whole neighborhoods in southwest Colombia, residents began the grim ritual of laying the dead to rest. But every ambulance that arrives at Mocoa’s ...

More than 250 people are dead and hundreds more missing after heavy rainfall triggered lethal mudslides and flooding in Colombia’s Putumayo province. As the survivors mourn, there have been ...

Relatives and rescue workers have been desperately searching the mud-filled ruins of their homes for loved ones after a torrent of water, mud and debris swept through the city of Mocoa in southern ...

Colombia, Apr 2: Around 254 people were killed and hundreds injured or missing as mudslides and flood swept across Mocoa town, capital of Putumayo, in southernwestern Colombia around 1 am on Friday.

Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday announced plans on Sunday to rebuild the town of Mocoa in the aftermath of Saturday’s flooding tragedy, which has left between 254 and 283 people dead ...