Killer slide hits town

HEAVY rains unleashed a landslide in a remote mountain town in southwestern Colombia yesterday, killing at least 17 people.

The National Disaster Risk Management agency said the early-morning landslide hit at least eight homes and blocked a stretch of the Pan-American Highway in the community of Rosas, about 630km southwest of Bogota.

Officials said rescue workers were continuing their search for victims.

President Ivan Duque sent a tweet expressing “solidarity with families of victims”.