Girl of Three Pulled Alive From Colombia Rubble After 100 Hours
A three-year-old girl and a 75-year-old man were pulled alive from the rubble in Colombia around 100 hours after the earthquake struck, extraordinary rescues nearly a week into the disaster. The confirmed death toll stands at more than 280 by official tallies, with hundreds still unaccounted for, and the aid effort is expanding. Bogotá has asked Washington to suspend tariffs to help the recovery.
Rescues so long after a quake are vanishingly rare — survival past the 72-hour mark usually depends on an air pocket, access to water and luck — and the two recoveries have given weary crews a reason to keep digging even as the operation shifts towards recovery. The competing casualty tallies reflect the chaos of a disaster spread across remote, landslide-hit terrain, which is why officials’ figures continue to move. The request to suspend American tariffs shows how quickly a natural disaster becomes economic diplomacy, as a new government seeks every lever to fund the rebuilding. The road back will be measured in years. Watch whether more survivors emerge and how Washington answers the tariff request.