At least seven people died and 11 others were injured Monday in a landslide in northwest Colombia, one of the regions of the country most affected by torrential rains, according to the emergency service.
This landslide destroyed a nightclub in the municipality of Puerto Valdivia, in the department of Antioquia, overnight.
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Seven dead have been recovered and 11 people transferred to hospital,
" Jaime Gomez, director of the departmental disaster risk management unit, told RCN radio.
He added that relief workers were continuing to search for other people in their 20s who were in the nightclub when it was swept away by the avalanche of dirt, which blocked the road between Medellin, the country's second largest city, and the Caribbean coast.
This new disaster brings the toll of two months of severe bad weather in Colombia to 34 dead, 39 injured and eight missing, according to the National Disaster Risk Management Unit.
These rains are linked to the climatic phenomenon of La Niña, which results in an unusual cooling of the Pacific Ocean.