Colombian rescue teams raced on Wednesday to find survivors still trapped beneath collapsed buildings two days after a powerful earthquake killed close to 250 people across the nation’s western valleys and coffee-growing region.
“We are in a race against time to save lives,” Cali Mayor Alejandro Eder told reporters, warning there was now less than a day left of a critical 72-hour window during which there are far greater chances of finding quake survivors.
Search for Colombia earthquake survivors enters critical window
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