{"id":3801,"date":"2019-04-26T14:52:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2019-04-26T14:52:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:52:59","slug":"deadly-landslide-hits-southwestern-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2019\/04\/26\/deadly-landslide-hits-southwestern-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly landslide hits southwestern Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seventeen people have been killed and five injured in a landslide in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, the country\u2019s disaster relief agency said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The landslide, which was caused by heavy rains, occurred early on Sunday in a rural area of Rosas municipality, the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday evening an agency spokesman said the death toll had risen from the initial figure of 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five people were hospitalized and eight houses were destroyed. A portion of the Pan-American Highway was also blocked by the landslide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Ivan Duque will visit the area on Sunday evening with the housing and transport ministers to meet with relief officials, his office said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Landslides are common in mountainous Colombia, especially during rainy season and in areas where precarious informal housing and narrow roadways are constructed on deforested Andean hillsides.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventeen people have been killed and five injured in a landslide in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, the country\u2019s disaster relief agency said on Sunday. The landslide, which was caused by heavy rains, occurred early on Sunday in a rural area of Rosas municipality, the agency said in a statement. On Sunday evening an agency spokesman said the death&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2019\/04\/26\/deadly-landslide-hits-southwestern-colombia\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3802,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions\/3802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}