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Bolivia (Plurinational State of): Landslide: 2003/03/31 Country Information on DRR

Period 2003/03/31
Country or District Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Event Type Landslide
Outline A landslide roared in Bolivias tropical lowlands early, killing three people, injuring four others and burying dozens of homes
Summary
Human Impact Physical Impact Others
OCHA Situation Report No.3 2003/04/25
Affected: 690 people (376 are children)
Killed: 24 people
Injured: 11 people
Missing: 45 people
Relocated: 300 people
Orphan children: 59
Totally destroyed: 116 houses
Partially destroyed: 33 houses
OCHA Situation Report No.2 2003/04/03
Dead: 14 people
Injured: 168
Affected: 600 persons
(125 families and 138 single persons)

25 children lost both parents

Destroyed: close to 200 homes

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Report/Articles

OCHA Situation Report No.3 2003/04/25
24 people killed, 11 people injured.

OCHA Situation Report No.2 2003/04/03
14 deaths, 168 injured

OCHA Situation Report 2003/04/01
On the morning of 31 March in Chima, province of Larecaja in the department of La Paz, an avalanche occurred after heavy rains, burying 400 houses and affecting approximately 700 families.

CNN News 2003/04/01
Firefighters and villagers raced Tuesday to unearth dozens of people trapped under a mass of red clay, rocks and rubble from a landslide which has killed at least 13 people and likely more.

Reuters Alertnet 2003/03/31
Hundreds of people were feared buried when a landslide engulfed a remote Bolivian gold-mining town.

CNN News 2003/03/31
Bolivia landslide buries homes

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ReliefWeb 2003/04/03
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Yahoo News 2003/03/31
A landslide buried hundreds of homes in a mining town in northern Bolivia Monday.