Colombia Earthquake: Over 2,500 Missing as Families Desperately Search Rubble

The devastating 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Colombia, with its epicenter in Chocó, has left a grim toll of over 224 confirmed deaths, 900 injured, and a staggering 2,500 people missing.

Families are engaged in frantic and exhaustive searches for their relatives, desperately combing through the rubble in hopes of finding survivors. The scale of the disaster has left many communities in shock, with the search efforts hampered by the sheer extent of the destruction.

The article provides a detailed list of missing individuals, painting a human picture of the tragedy. Among those unaccounted for are Juan Felipe Giraldo, 23, who was staying at the Hotel Dibeni in Pereira; Mario Alberto Moncada Muñoz, known as “Mono,” also missing in Pereira; and Felipe Restrepo, who was in Pereira at the time of the quake. The list also includes Efraín José Salazar, a Venezuelan citizen in Cali, and Elkin Andrés Garzón Bernal, a dentist from Pereira.

Other missing persons include Luz Ángela Martínez Ruiz, last seen in Cali; elderly couple Darío Hernández and Odelia Mercedes Roca, also in Cali; Ceneida Ramírez Arango, who worked at the municipal mayor's office in Pereira; Dios Chica González, 70, from Pereira; and Cecilia Laguna, from Pereira. The list continues with María Rosalba Morales Botero, last seen at Pereira's Matecaña International Airport, who missed her flight; Daniel Esteban Toro, from Pereira; Juan Pablo Medina, from Cali; Andrés Felipe Guerrero, last seen in Santa Rosa de Cabal; Mayerly Duque and her young child, from Pereira; Marta Rojas, from Cali; Bernardo Galeano Zapata, who traveled from Dosquebradas to Chocó; Kevin Santiago Rodríguez Ledesma, a 19-year-old engineering student in Pereira; Irma Rodríguez Daza and Ana Silva Rodríguez, from Pereira; Henry Gil Medina, from Pereira; Manuel Enrique Gómez Ariza, 69, from the Hotel Royal in Pereira; Angélica Agredó Galvis, from Cali; María Camila Giraldo Duque and Lina Duque, from Pereira; Johan Sebastiá Orrego, from Pereira; and Michelle Valeria Mercado, 21, who disappeared with her one-year-old baby in Pereira.