A desperate appeal is made by the inhabitants of southern Cauca to the national and departmental government after a new landslide in rural area of La Vega that left this area of the country cut off.
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The moment was recorded on video.
The mayor of the municipality of La Vega, Óscar Molano, reported that theThe emergency was recorded this Friday, January 20, at the height of the village of La Betulia.
“The earth warned that it was going to collapse and indeed we witnessed the large-scale collapse that apparently also affected the banks on this very important road.”, said the municipal president.
Likewise, he called on all national and departmental authorities to attend to this emergency that deepens the serious situation that the Cauca region and the Southwest of the country are going through.
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“Fortunately there were no victims because it was possible to warn so that traffic would not occur at that time of the collapse of such a high magnitudeMolano added.
On January 9, a landslide in Rosas, in the middle of the Pan-American Highway, left more than 300 families from the villages of La Soledad, Santa Clara, Párraga Viejo, and Chontaduro, in Rosas, affected.
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