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"We heard them screaming," said one rescuer in Cali, where emergency workers and volunteers are racing against time to find the living trapped in the rubble.
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More than 160 people have been killed after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Colombia. Rescue teams continue to search beneath the rubble for survivors. Andres Bayona reports from the ground in Bogotá.
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Search teams and civilians picked through the remains of destroyed buildings in the country's third-largest city, Cali, passing large pieces of concrete and rubble down a long line of volunteers.
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The magnitude 7.4 quake had its epicentre in Chocó province, near the Pacific Coast, but could be felt in cities hundreds of kilometres away.
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The temblor, which struck Colombia's Pacific coast shortly after 7:30 a.m., was also felt in Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.
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