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Capital-city tolls

Colombia earthquake: five capitals report 188 deaths by 4 p.m.

Earthquake damage in Pereira, a context image from one of the five capitals covered
Private video from Pereira supplied to En Colombie

Asocapitales published a tally limited to Cali, Pereira, Quibdó, Manizales and Armenia. By 4 p.m. Colombia time, it recorded 188 deaths, 1,677 injured people and 243 collapsed structures across those five cities. It is neither a national toll nor a final figure.

Cali and Pereira account for most deaths

The record assigns 95 deaths to Cali, 79 to Pereira, nine to Quibdó and five to Manizales; Armenia reports none within this scope. Injuries are distributed across Cali (997), Pereira (278), Quibdó (116), Manizales (112) and Armenia (174).

The 1,677 injuries in the five capitals remain separate from the earlier presidential national toll of 2,595 injured people, which has a different scope and reference time.

Two hundred and twenty-two people reported missing

The official 6:43 p.m. post adds 222 people reported missing: 180 in Cali, 37 in Pereira and five in Quibdó. It also lists 239 people trapped and 87 rescued in Cali, 15 trapped in Pereira and six in Quibdó.

These categories must not be added automatically: someone rescued may previously have been listed among those trapped or being sought.

Two hundred and forty-three collapsed structures

The report counts 92 collapsed structures in Pereira, 69 in Armenia, 56 in Cali, 17 in Manizales and nine in Quibdó. This total is not a final engineering assessment of every building or a national count of uninhabitable homes.

A later divergence in Cali

Cali’s municipal report with a 7:30 p.m. cutoff later shows 74 deaths in the city, compared with 95 in the 4 p.m. Asocapitales record. None of the sources reviewed explains whether the gap reflects a correction, consolidation or different definition.

Both records are therefore retained with their times and scopes. Further releases need to clarify the divergence before any national comparison.

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