{"id":3716,"date":"2019-04-23T12:39:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T12:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2019-04-23T12:39:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T12:39:06","slug":"colombia-landslide-kills-villagers-on-easter-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2019\/04\/23\/colombia-landslide-kills-villagers-on-easter-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia landslide kills villagers on Easter Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>At least 17 killed and more than 25 people still buried in the mud, local media reports say.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 17 people have died in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/colombia.html\">Colombia<\/a>&nbsp;following a landslide triggered by heavy rains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The early morning landslide hit at least eight homes on Easter Sunday and blocked a stretch of the Pan-American Highway in the community of Rosas, roughly 630 kilometres southwest of Bogota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A stretch of the Pan-American Highway that links Ecuador&#8217;s capital Quito to the Colombian city of Cali has been closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 25 other people were still buried in the mud and debris, local media reports said. Military forces were deployed to affected areas to help in the recovery efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colombian President Ivan Duque said on Twitter that emergency services were working to free the road in order to allow humanitarian aid to the affected area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our solidarity to the families of the victims,&#8221; Duque wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/04\/14-killed-colombia-easter-sunday-landslides-190422001042902.html\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/04\/14-killed-colombia-easter-sunday-landslides-190422001042902.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 17 killed and more than 25 people still buried in the mud, local media reports say. At least 17 people have died in&nbsp;Colombia&nbsp;following a landslide triggered by heavy rains. The early morning landslide hit at least eight homes on Easter Sunday and blocked a stretch of the Pan-American Highway in the community of Rosas, roughly 630 kilometres southwest&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2019\/04\/23\/colombia-landslide-kills-villagers-on-easter-sunday\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}