The death toll for Colombia’s rainy season hit 14 over the weekend, as one person died and 44 families were evacuated from their homes in Bogota following a Sunday downpour.
The evacuations occurred in the neighbourhoods of Barrios Unidos and Suba, according to daily El Espectador, while Radio Santa Fe reported a landslide in the neighbourhood of los Puentes, which left one man dead.
As well as the evacuations, Bogota traffic police reported the closure of Circunvalar Avenue, a major road running along the eastern border of the capital and in to center, due to a landslide.
According to Radio Santa Fe, 148 municipalities in 27 departments had been affected so far, with Amazonas, Cauca, Tolima, Antioquia and Cundinamarca, the hardest hit.
The human toll includes 14 confirmed dead, 21 wounded and three missing, while 100,000 families have been left homeless.
