MOCOA, Colombia -- A grim search for the missing resumed at dawn Sunday in southern Colombia after surging rivers sent an avalanche of floodwaters, mud and debris through a city, killing at least 200 people and leaving many more injured and homeless. "We will do everything possible to help them," Santos said after confirming the death toll. “We will keep looking.”

Local police said earlier on Saturday that 93 bodies had been recovered. The National Disaster Agency said Sunday that the death toll was at 200, with another 200 injured, but authorities conceded it could easily go higher because many people were still unaccounted for and dozens were airlifted to hospitals in other cities in critical condition, mostly children. “It’s a big area,” Mocoa Mayor Jose Antonio Castro, who lost his house, told Caracol radio on Saturday. Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed at least 112 people had been killed after intense rains triggered an avalanche of mud and water from overflowing rivers that swept through a small city.
A landslide in Colombia's southwestern border department of Putumayo sends mud and debris crashing onto houses killing over 250 people and injuring at least 400 others. In addition, 200 people are missing.