By Xinhua,
Bogota : Heavy rainfall during the past week has left nine people dead and 32 others injured in Colombia, the Social Security and Health Ministry said Wednesday.
The rainfall has brought flooding, mud-rock flows and landslides in more than 150 cities and towns in 26 provinces in western and central Colombia, Social Security and Health Minister Diego Palacio Betancour said.
Weather forecasters said the rainfall is likely to last till late June, and the disaster-hit region is expected to expand northward.
The government has evacuated residents from potentially dangerous places and transported food and medicine to the disaster areas.
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