Colombia rescuers race against the clock to search for earthquake survivors

Colombian volunteers and rescuers cleared rubble with their bare hands and buckets to search for survivors early Tuesday (August 11) after the country's strongest earthquake in a decade killed at least 132 people and smashed dozens of bu…

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