12 injured, several children missing after dam bursts in Colombia

BOGOTA, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- At least a dozen people were injured and several children missing after a dam burst in the rural southwest Colombian department of Cauca early Friday, the Colombian Civil Defense reported.

"It seems there was a mass movement that dammed the Aguas Claritas stream, and the resulting water flow swept away the homes in the area," Major Juan Carlos Sandoval, director of the Civil Defense in