Rescuers in Colombia have pulled seven people alive from a mudslide that engulfed a poor neighbourhood.
They also recovered 22 bodies from the slide, caused when a hillside collapsed on Sunday after the heaviest rains in the country for decades, the BBC reports.
Residents of the hillside settlement of Bello, near Medellin, say they fear more than 100 people are still buried.
The landslide struck the La Gabriela district during Sunday lunch, a gathering time for families. It buried 10 houses, each three storeys high.
About 300 residents of the neighbourhood rushed to search for missing friends and many tried to help rescuers pull away the rubble.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos hurried home from the Ibero-American summit in Mar del Plata in Argentina.
Colombia has been lashed in recent weeks by heavy rains that have left nearly 200 people dead, as well as 1.5 million people homeless nationwide.
Venezuela hit
In neighbouring Venezuela, driving rains have triggered flooding and cave-ins that have killed 34 people over the past week and left an estimated 90,000 people homeless nationwide.
President Hugo Chavez has announced his government will seize private land to house people left homeless by the flooding, the worst there in 40 years.
Mr Chavez says he will personally lead the effort to relocate some of those driven from their homes.
He says the government would build houses on a 36 hectare lot near Caracas airport and relax rules governing the construction of houses in a national park.
The storms are being blamed on atmospheric disturbances from the La Nina weather pattern, with cooler-than-normal water circulating in the Pacific Ocean around the equator.
