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Video. Moment Cali hospital collapses after powerful Colombia earthquake

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · · 136 words · By Alexis Caraco
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What to know about Video. Moment Cali hospital collapses after powerful Colombia earthquake

CCTV footage shows people fleeing the building as debris fell, injuring one person who survived.

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What happened

CCTV footage shows people fleeing the building as debris fell, injuring one person who survived.

Why it matters

The hospital said around 90 patients were transferred after parts of its facilities, including emergency areas, became unusable.

Common ground

The damage came as rescue teams searched across western Colombia for survivors after the earthquake killed at least 181 people and injured more than 1,300, according to authorities on Tuesday.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Several hospitals in Cali were damaged”
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Multiple sources confirm damage to health facilities in Cali, specifically mentioning the Hospital Universitario del Valle and Clinica Nuestra.
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web search NEUTRAL — This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Multiple. If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
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web search NEUTRAL — 6 days ago · The meaning of MULTIPLE is consisting of, including, or involving more than one. How to use multiple in a sentence.
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web search NEUTRAL — In mathematics, a multiple is the product of any quantity and an integer. [1] In other words, for the quantities a and b, it can be said that b is a multiple of a if b = na for some integer n, which i…
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Claim 2: “239 people were believed to be trapped under rubble.”
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The claim that 239 people were trapped under rubble is corroborated by TASS (citing Mayor Alejandro Eder) and another web source.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Year 239 (CCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gordianus and Aviola (or, less frequently, year 992 Ab urbe …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/239
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Claim 3: “Cali recorded 95 deaths, the highest toll reported in a single city”
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The specific figure of 95 deaths in Cali is mentioned in one web result ('Moment Cali hospital collapses...'), but other sources only provide the national total (181). No second independent source confirms the specific city breakdown.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — América de Cali S. A., best known as América de Cali or América, is a Colombian professional football club based in Cali. It competes in the Categoría Primera A, the top-flight league of Colombian foo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/América_de_Cali
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Santiago de Cali (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo ðe ˈkali]), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with an estimated 2.3 milli…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John J. Cali (August 8, 1918 – February 1, 2014) was an American businessman, real estate developer, and philanthropist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Cali
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Claim 4: “the World Health Organization reporting collapses affecting cardiology and paediatric areas at the Hospital Universitario del Valle.”
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Multiple sources confirm the collapse of cardiology and pediatric areas at the Hospital Universitario del Valle, with one source specifically attributing the report to the WHO.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) which coordinates responses to international public health issues and emergencies. It is headquartered in Geneva,…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — NYC Health + Hospitals, officially the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), operates the public hospitals and clinics in New York City as a public benefit corporation. NYC Health + Ho…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Women's College Hospital is a teaching hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in downtown Toronto at the north end of Hospital Row, a section of University Avenue where several major hosp…
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Claim 5: “the earthquake killed at least 181 people and injured more than 1,300, according to authorities on Tuesday.”
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Multiple independent sources (AOL, Asocapitales via web search, and other news reports) confirm the death toll of at least 181 people following the 7.4-magnitude earthquake in western Colombia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Colombia national football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol de Colombia), nicknamed Los Cafeteros, represents Colombia in men's international football and is managed by the Federación Colombiana…
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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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Claim 6: “CCTV footage shows people fleeing the building as debris fell, injuring one person who survived.”
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The evidence provided for this claim describes CCTV footage of people fleeing floods and debris in Nepal and Tibet, not a building collapse in the context of the Colombia earthquake described in the other claims. The claim is attributed to the wrong event/location.
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web search NEUTRAL — A massive flood and debris surge struck the China-Nepal border in Tibet, with terrifying CCTV footage showing people fleeing as floodwaters and debris overwhelmed Gyirong Port.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5biUZKdRcs
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web search NEUTRAL — People use their mobile phones to film a list of injured people pasted on a hospital wall following deadly floods in Kathmandu, Nepal, 27 August 2026 (Reuters). Within hours, homes, roads, bridges and…
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web search NEUTRAL — Videos show people swept away while fleeing. Security footage captured on the Chinese side of the Nepal-Tibet border showed many people fleeing before a torrent of rock, mud and water destroyed buildi…
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Claim 7: “The government declared a state of emergency and ordered a coordinated rescue operation.”
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The declaration of a state/national emergency and the coordination of rescue operations are confirmed by Wikipedia (2026 Colombia earthquake) and multiple other news sources (Cyprus Mail, etc.).
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web search NEUTRAL — The Colombian government declared a national emergency and launched search and rescue operations in affected areas.The National Association of Entrepreneurs of Colombia (ANDI) raised more than US$64 m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Colombia_earthquake
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web search NEUTRAL — The government declared a state of emergency to coordinate rescue operations. Flights were suspended at airports in Pereira, Manizales, Quibdo, Armenia, Cartago and Buenaventura while inspectors asses…
https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/08/10/at-least-82-killed-after-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The national government has declared a national emergency and has deployed all its resources to assist the affected and coordinate rescue efforts.
https://www.mundoamerica.com/news/2026/08/11/6a7af012fdddffc…
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Claim 8: “The hospital said around 90 patients were transferred after parts of its facilities, including emergency areas, became unusable.”
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Two independent web sources (Africanews and Goldenage60s) explicitly state that around 90 patients were transferred after parts of the hospital facilities, including emergency areas, became unusable.
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