Colombia earthquake death toll rises to over 250 as rescuers dig through rubble for survivors

More than 5,000 homes damaged while hundreds more were destroyed

Colombian rescuers pulled a 32-year-old woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed building on Tuesday, sparking cheers and applause as exhausted crews raced to find more survivors from the country’s strongest earthquake in a century. Daniela Largo was carried from the wreckage wrapped in a blue blanket as rescuers emb

Exhausted crews are continuing their search for survivors after the 7.4-magnitude quake on Aug 10.

In Pereira and Cali, families slept in parks as aftershocks rattled damaged neighborhoods where entire blocks had been reduced to rubble.

The earthquake is Colombia's deadliest since a 6.2-magnitude quake devastated parts of the same western coffee-growing region in January 1999, killing more than 1,000 people.Colombian rescue workers are racing against time to find survivors trapped beneath collapsed buildings after a powerful earthquake struck the coun

Colombia quake death toll tops 250 as rescuers race to find survivors  Reuters

The country's strongest earthquake in a century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, is one of its deadliest natural disasters in years

“We heard them screaming,” said one rescuer in Cali, where rescuers face a race against time to find the living.

Death toll rises after 7.4 Colombia earthquake, rescuers search rubble  usatoday.com

Dogs and drones have been deployed to search for those trapped under collapsed buildings, with local authorities reporting at least 150 deaths from the nation's strongest earthquake in a decade.

Thousands remain unaccounted for, with many buried under rubble and rescuers yet to reach more isolated communities. The true scale of the destruction is emerging only slowly, with the death toll likely to rise steeply.

Emergency crews are picking through piles of rubble in hopes of helping trapped survivors after a powerful earthquake shook Colombia, causing buildings to crumble and collapse. CBS News' Bradley Blackburn reports.

Rescue workers searched through rubble for survivors of a collapsed building after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, with more than 100 people killed in the country's strongest earthquake this century.

Rescue crews dug through mountains of shattered concrete in western Colombia on Tuesday, racing to find survivors after a powerful earthquake killed more than 200 people, according to estimates from local authorities.

The quake's epicentre was 100km deep and was felt in Equador, Panama and Venezuela.