The death toll from a massive landslide in Colombia has reached 30, as rescue workers search through debris for more victims in the town of Bello.
The disaster began when a hillside, waterlogged by weeks of heavy rains, gave way above a suburban neighborhood Sunday outside Colombia's second-largest city, Medellin. The mudslide happened as families gathered for lunch.
Many people remain missing.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is expected to visit the site Tuesday. He left a regional summit in Argentina to lead the response to the disaster.
The Colombian leader has said the unusually heavy rainfalls could leave more than 2 million people homeless. Before Sunday, heavy rains had already killed around 170 people this year in the Andean nation.
In neighboring Venezuela, driving rains triggered recent flooding and cave-ins that killed 34 people and left an estimated 90,000 people homeless.
Officials blame the downpours on a weather phenomenon known as La Nina, during which cooler-than-normal water temperatures exist in the Tropical Pacific Ocean. VOANews
