00:11A woman identified as Daniela Largo Sanchez was rescued alive in Pereira on Tuesday night
00:18after spending 36 hours trapped beneath rubble following a 7.4 magnitude earthquake.
00:24The Bogota Fire Department said rescue teams and volunteers had spent the day working
00:29tirelessly to locate survivors in the affected area.
00:33Sanchez was found trapped beneath a collapsed hotel and was taken to a local hospital for
00:38treatment, Interior Minister Rodrigo Lara said in a message shared on X by Colombian President
00:44Abelardo de la Espriella.
00:46In the same message, de la Espriella said search and rescue teams were still searching for more
00:51than 40 people in Pereira.
00:53The 7.4 magnitude quake, described as the most devastating to hit Colombia this century,
01:00struck the country's coffee-growing heartland early Monday, leaving apartment blocks, homes,
01:06schools, and health centers damaged, tilted, or reduced to rubble.
01:11Separate reports from affected cities put the death toll at 254 as of Tuesday morning, including
01:17101 deaths in Pereira and 95 in Cali, Colombia's third-largest city.
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