Colombia earthquake rescue efforts enter second day as death toll reaches 164

BREAKING: Colombia's earthquake death toll climbs to 164 as rescuers work through the night, two days after the 7.4-magnitude quake struck the country's coffee-growing region.

One hundred sixty-four dead in Colombia, and rescuers haven't stopped for two days.

The 7.4 magnitude quake hit the country's coffee-growing region, and the search has now gone through a second night. These pictures show firefighters working a collapsed residential building — by hand, floor by floor. And here, neighbours digging alongside the crews, because when it's your street, you don't wait for permission.

The hard truth about earthquakes is that the number you hear on day two is rarely the number you hear on day five. Crews are still reaching towns cut off since the shaking stopped, and every hour matters — survival odds under rubble fall off a cliff after seventy-two hours. That window closes tomorrow.

So the question nobody wants to ask but everyone's tracking: Colombia's official death toll passes two hundred by the end of the week.

This is Sara White, reporting for HIT.

Source Read the original reporting at france24.com