Colombia is suffering severe storms with heavy rains, particularly in Cali and Barraquilla. Several thousand people have been evacuated from their homes and material damage appears to be extensive.
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Heavy rains in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region have led to mudslides in Wuzhou and Yulin that killed at least 30 people, with 18 missing and 80,000 people evacuated from their homes. The area has been pounded by rain since Monday, according to Xinhua news agency, and a state of emergency has been declared.
Update February 2010 (CBS video) The last of the 4,000 tourists stranded by landslides and flooding in Aguas Calientes, at the foot of the ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru, have now left the area. Some 1,400 people were airlifted out Friday, when a week-long airlift operation ended. Up to 40 mudslides in the region have cut road and rail links. Machu Picchu itself will now be closed for several weeks for repairs and to ascertain the safety of the area. Five people were have been reported killed by the mudslides.
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Massive flooding in five regions in El Salvador has taken the lives of 124 people, with reports of deaths still coming in as the country struggles to cope. Some 7,000 homes have been damaged. The hardest hit areas appear to be San Salvador, the capital, and San Vicente province in the centre of the country. The floods, bringing mudslides, came after days of heavy rains. The Independent reported in 2005, after heavy flooding that year, that deforestation has left the country vulnerable to major flood damage.
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