More than 100 feared dead in landslide

More than 100 people were feared dead yesterday following a landslide that buried a poor area during Colombia’s heaviest rains in decades.

The rains that triggered Sunday’s landslide in the Bello, a suburb of Medellin in Antioquia state, have also driven thousands from their homes, damaged coffee and flower crops and snarled the two-lane highways that are mountainous Colombia’s commercial backbone.

Rescuers had recovered 23 bodies, including 11 children, by early yesterday.

Authorities said nine of the children were playing in a park when the landslide struck.