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© UnknownColombian emergency workers and residents used spades and rescue dogs to find victims.
At least 200 people are feared to have been buried by a landslide in Colombia's second largest city as rescue workers scramble to save victims of the country's worst floods in decades.

According to Red Cross officials, torrential rains have caused a major landslide in the city of Medellin, leaving at least 200 people missing, state-run BBC reported on Sunday.

"The initial count is that there may be 150-200 people considered missing. So far we have rescued three alive," said Cesar Uruena, a Red Cross official, adding that "We are focused on moving rubble to see if we find survivors. We've never had this many people affected [in Colombia] by the rainy season."

Officials say that at least two million people have been affected by the torrential rains and that over 10,000 homes have been destroyed as the result of the disaster in the country.

Meanwhile, rescue workers were in race against time to find survivors as sniffer dogs were nosing through the rubbles in the suburb of Bello area in Medellin.

Disaster management officials said that one body has been recovered from beneath the tones of rubble while seven people have been rescued so far.

The Red Cross says that at least 176 have been killed by heavy rains in Colombia so far this year, and more than one million people have been left homeless.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said he would call a national state of emergency if the rain shows no sign of nearing an end.

Source: HA/AGB/MGH