Streets were covered in thick sand, mud and tree limbs from the rivers and rainforest that surround the city. The sudden overflow of rivers pushed sediment and rocks into buildings and roads in Mocoa on Saturday. (Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)Vargas and his family huddled with about two dozen other residents as rocks, trees and wooden planks ripped through their neighbourhood below. This handout photo released by the Colombia Presidential Press Office shows an aerial view of Mocoa, Colombia, on Saturday. When he finally reached the neighbourhood where his in-laws live he found "just mud and rocks."

Source: CBC News April 02, 2017 10:02 UTC