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Colombia rescuers race against the clock to search for earthquake survivors

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 224 words · By Video by Carys GARLAND
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Claim 1: “the country's strongest earthquake in a decade killed at least 132 people”
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Three independent web search results confirm a powerful earthquake in Colombia with a death toll of at least 132 people. One source specifically mentions it as one of the strongest in years.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country located in South America, with insular regions in North America. Colombia's mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hippopotamuses are an introduced species in Colombia. Four hippopotamuses were first kept by the drug lord Pablo Escobar in his private zoo in the early 1980s, and upon his death in 1993, they were al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamuses_in_Colombia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SAM Colombia Flight 501 was a Boeing 727-46 that crashed on 19 May 1993, killing all 132 on board. The aircraft collided with a mountain while on approach to Medellín, Colombia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAM_Colombia_Flight_501
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Claim 2: “smashed dozens of buildings”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that the earthquake caused buildings to collapse, specifically mentioning that it 'flattened dozens of buildings' and that 'dozens of buildings collapsed'.
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web search NEUTRAL — The death toll from a devastating earthquake that flattened dozens of buildings in western Colombia has risen to 224, local authorities said, as emergency workers dug through the wreckage for survivor…
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2026/0811/1587358-earthquake-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — Colombia’s interior minister said more than 20 municipalities across the country had been hit. Jorge Moncayo, a 64-year-old taxi driver in Cali, said he saw plumes of dust shoot up across the city fro…
https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in/2026/08/11/colombi…
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web search NEUTRAL — (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga). BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — At least 20 people were killed and dozens of buildings collapsed in cities across western Colombia on Monday after a powerful 7.4-magnitude ear…
https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2026/08/10/20-dead-and-buildin…
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Claim 3: “Colombian volunteers and rescuers cleared rubble with their bare hands and buckets to search for survivors early Tuesday (August 11)”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of unrelated Discord support threads and general Wikipedia pages for August in various years. There is no mention of Colombian rescuers or rubble clearing on August 11 in the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following events occurred in August 1974:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1974
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following events occurred in August 1946:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1946
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following events occurred in August 1962:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1962
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