€ 5600 per family Colombia

mocoa - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has any family who has been affected by landslides and floods in Mocoa promised a compensation of 18 million pesos (over 5,600 euros). He promised to make quick work of rebuilding the city, according to the Colombian radio station RCN Sunday.

' We will accelerate the construction of a new hospital, 'said Santos. ' Healthcare in Mocoa will be better than it has ever been. ''

The figures on the number of victims from the natural disaster vary. Authorities initially reported Sunday that around 250 people were killed, but later Santos said the landslide has claimed 210 lives. Among the dead are more than forty children.

The authorities fear that the death toll rises further, because hundreds of people missing. Santos said that the search for missing persons and assistance to survivors several thousand firefighters, employees of the Red Cross and other aid workers have been deployed.

Due to heavy rains occurred in the night from Friday to Saturday rivers burst their banks. Then flooded water, mud and debris of houses and roads in Mocoa, a city in southwestern Colombia with about 40 000 inhabitants.

The damage is enormous. Hundreds of houses have been destroyed. People are deprived of water and electricity and there is a great shortage of food. Santos has promised that a new water is applied in the reconstruction of Mocoa.

Of the more than two hundred wounded by the natural disasters, there are approximately seventy transferred to hospitals in other places.