An avalanche of mud smashed into a local bus in Colombia, killing at least 20 people after heavy rains battering the Andean nation caused a landslide, the government's disaster agency said on Thursday. Downpours caused by the La Nina weather phenomenon have killed hundreds of people across Colombia and forced more than 2 million from their homes in what the government calls the worst natural disaster in the country's history.
Relief workers said a landslide smacked into a bus outside the city of Manizales, the capital of the coffee-producing Caldas department, late on Wednesday. Twelve bodies have been recovered so far and eight are trapped under the rock and mud, they said.