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This includes the cities of Armenia, Filandia, Ibague, Manizales, Salento, and Pereira.

This year’s annual dry season that affects Colombia in December and January has seen the number of municipalities facing shortages grow to 32, according to the country’s minister of housing, cities and territories, Jonathan Malagón.

A dozen people, including four children, were killed yesterday by mudslides the struck the central Colombian town of Marquetalia in the middle of the night.

Rain and severe weather have led to the collapse of at least 14 houses, but no deaths, significant injuries, or missing people have been reported.

The failure of a massive, under-construction hydroelectric dam in Colombia has forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes.

At least 20 people were killed by a building collapse in Cartagena late last week, with more than 20 others also suffering injuries

Heavy rains caused a landslide that killed at least 16 and affected more than 500 families and 80 homes across 16 primarily lower-class neighborhoods.