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Three people died after a landslide struck a neighbourhood in Colombia's Santa Marta following heavy rains, the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) said on Tuesday (Feb 3).

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00:00Three people were killed after a landslide hit a neighborhood in Colombia's Santa Marta following heavy rain.
00:08An avalanche of mud, rocks and trees destroyed eight homes and damaged at least 50 others early on Monday.
00:30Two people died there above.
00:33We see that the river caudal has been increasing and we hope this will stop because it's sad. It's hard.
00:43In Córdoba, residents fled flooded streets by canoe after the San Jorge River overflowed.
00:48As authorities warned of sudden floods, nearly 10,000 families have been affected nationwide,
00:54with Colombia's unusually intense rainy season bringing 64.4 percent more rainfall than normal,
01:02hitting the Caribbean, Andean, Pacific and Amazon region's hardest.
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