In the recent report from the Unified Command Post (PMU), the Government of Chocó reported that the number of people killed by the landslide that occurred on the afternoon of Friday, January 12 in the municipality of Carmen de Atrato increased to 39. (Clashed).
“The Prosecutor’s Office and the Red Cross reported that twenty injuries were reported during the incident and, so far, 39 deaths have been found,” the Government announced around 9 pm on Monday, January 15.
So far only 36 of the 39 fatalities have been fully identified. According to the authorities’ compilation, the names of the deceased are:
Erlindon Nelson Quiroz Ríos.
Dianne Mayumi Pear Mosque.
Catalina Maria Giraldo Aristizábal.
Eyleen Andrade Asprilla.
Diana Patricia Murillo Orobio.
Liceth Verónica Córdoba Palacios.
Isaac Gil Lopez.
Jeylen Daniel Mosquera Andrades.
Karen Yulissa Garcés Mena.
John Jairo Murillo Castañeda.
María Fernanda Moreno Valderrama.
Morelia Garrido Cuesta.
Ana Victoria Andrade Asprilla.
Luz Edith Mira Serna.
Iris Yacely Mosquera Perea.
Hedssy Daniela Bejarano Andrades.
Yirlesa Palacios Andrades.
Rocío Mazo Pino.
Pedro Leonel Palacios Cossio.
Rubén José Pérez Zaya.
Astrith Johanna Osorio Bedoya.
Fernando Silgado Martínez.
Limbania Cuesta Ramos.
Ailyn Judy Martinez Mosque.
Javier Yurgaky in Ibargue.
Adriana Marcela Torres Gómez.
Javier Andrés Mena Becerra.
Leydi Laura Mosquera Robledo.
Claudia Patricia Mosquera Palacio.
Luis Carlos Then Gutierrez.
Milton Darley Hurtado Copete.
Luis Fernando Velásquez Cardona.
Kandry Daniela Becerra.
Diego David Estrada Sanchez.
Milena Socorro Olaya Mazo.
Jhon Jairo Córdoba Benítez.
To be identified.
To be identified.
To be identified.
The missing
In addition, 182 people belonging to all the institutions of the National Disaster Risk System remain in the emergency zone, carrying out monitoring and rescue actions to locate four people who remain missing.
According to reports from family members filed with the Red Cross and the National Police, the four missing persons respond to the names of Edinson Osorio Ríos, Juan Pablo Hinestroza Rentería, Daniela Becerra and Marcela Andrade Asprilla.
The governor of Chocó, Nubia Carolina Córdoba, reported that in turn the work of delivering the bodies of the fatal victims to their relatives is advancing, after having completed the identification activities.
“We have arranged all the necessary logistical conditions to allow the transfer of the fatal victims, whose families have decided so, to the city of Quibdó. With the support of the National Police, the transfer of the coffins will also be by air. We hope to receive the victims and their families in the next hour. The last bodies received will be transferred tomorrow,” the official announced through her social networks.
According to the latest bulletin from the Government of Chocó, with cut-off at 9:00 pm on Monday, January 15, the authorities were already moving forward with the transfer of 19 of the deceased to Quibdó to hand them over to their relatives.
The regional authority assured that with the support of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (Icbf) and the Red Cross, they also provide psychosocial support to the relatives of the fatal victims and survivors of the tragedy on the Medellín-Quibdó highway. “There is 1 intervention team and 8 psychologists for said care,” indicated the Chocó Government.
Next, the regional entity added: “(The) belongings of the victims and vehicles affected at the scene of the incident will be delivered to their families once an expert determines it.”
The emergency
The collapse occurred on the afternoon of Friday, January 12, in the sector known as Toldas, at kilometer 17 of the Medellín-Quibdó highway. The landslide buried the vehicles that were stopped in the area due to a previous landslide that had blocked the road, in addition to 50 people who were sheltering from the rain inside a home.
“We were all sheltered inside a house and the lady was feeding us while the big landslide of Las Toldas happened. There was part that was dripping water, it was dripping dirt and there were more than 50 people inside the house and the collapse took all those people away,” said one of the survivors in an audio that circulated on social networks.
The seconds before the tragedy were recorded in a video in which it is observed how while a line of vehicles waits to advance along kilometer 17 of the Medellín-Quibdó highway, the land is giving way little by little until the landslide devastates with everything in its path.
Seconds before the collapse on the Medellín-Quibdó highway – credit
While the relief agencies carry out the search and rescue work, the Chocó Government assured that “a team of SNGRD professionals will continue to carry out technical review and evaluate critical points of the Quibdó-Medellín highway, to take the necessary actions to protect the life and safety of the people who remain in the area (rescuers and family members).” With Infobae