Colombia quake: Over 2k missing; flights disrupted, 21 aftershocks

NEW: More than 2,000 people are missing after Colombia's 7.4-magnitude earthquake, with 21 aftershocks recorded and flights disrupted.

More than two thousand people are missing in Colombia tonight. Two thousand — that's the new figure after the 7.4 magnitude earthquake, and it lands on top of everything we already knew.

The ground hasn't stopped moving either. Twenty-one aftershocks so far, each one shaking rescue crews off the piles they're trying to climb. You can see what they're working with here — collapsed floors, hand tools, neighbors pulling at concrete. And in another town, the same scene, block after block of it.

Flights are disrupted too, which matters more than it sounds — aid, rescue teams, medical evacuations, all of it slows down. The ones who got out are packed into shelters like this one, waiting for names.

Here's the grim math: missing lists usually shrink fast as people check in — or they don't. Does that missing figure drop below one thousand within seventy-two hours?

This is Kateryna Kovalenko, reporting for HIT.

Source Read the original reporting at timesofindia.indiatimes.com