Colombians Search for Relatives Missing After Earthquake - teleSUR English
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On Tuesday, hundreds of Colombians continued searching for their missing relatives with the help of the media and social networks after Monday's magnitude 7.4

At least 169 people have died rescue teams continue searching for hundreds of missing people in Pereira and Cali.

On Tuesday, hundreds of Colombians continued searching for their missing relatives with the help of the media and social networks after Monday’s magnitude 7.4 earthquake, which killed at least 169 people and caused dozens of buildings to collapse, mainly in the cities of Pereira and Cali.

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The earthquake was centered in San Jose del Palmar, a town in the department of Choco, in the Pacific region, located on the border of Risaralda and Valle del Cauca, two of the departments among the hardest hit by the tragedy.

So far, there are no official figures on the number of people reported missing. In Cali, where at least 85 people have died, and in Pereira, with 66 confirmed fatalities, people are asking for help to find their loved ones.

The death toll is expected to rise throughout the day as search and rescue operations advance. The first 72 hours after an earthquake are crucial for finding survivors. Among those who have not been located after the earthquake are 164 Spaniards, according to the Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Albares.

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One of the cases of missing people that has received the most attention is that of the girl Violeta Guerrero, who was at the home of her grandmother, Amparo Jaramillo, in the Guadalupe Residential Complex, one of the collapsed buildings. Nothing has been heard from them since then.

Rescue teams are tirelessly searching through the rubble for the hundreds of people who remain missing. Authorities have no consolidated figures for those missing, nor do they have consolidated figures for the dead and injured in what is Colombia’s worst tragedy so far in the first quarter of the 21st century.

On Tuesday, telecommunications companies Telefonica and MasOrange enabled free calls and SMS messages from Spain to Colombia, as well as roaming fee waivers, to help people stay in contact with their relatives in Colombia.

Telefonica is providing the free service through both its Movistar and O2 brands, for individual customers as well as professionals and small and midsize businesses. MasOrange, meanwhile, said the extraordinary measures have been enabled for all of its brands and will remain in effect for the next 15 days.

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Source: EFE

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