<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Heavy rains on Wednesday complicated the search for nine people still missing after a landslide that killed at least 20 in central Colombia, authorities said.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">More than 400 military troops, firefighters and other government rescue workers searched for survivors under intense downpours, two days after Monday's disaster in the Cundinamarca department.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We have at this time a toll of 20 fatalities" including five minors, fire department chief Alvaro Farfan told reporters Wednesday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Several homes were destroyed and a major trade artery blocked after torrential rains hit the Quetame municipality late Monday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fifteen bodies, four of them children, had been recovered from the mud and rubble on Tuesday before the search was temporarily called off due to bad weather.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The other five victims were discovered Wednesday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The operation had previously been suspended due to rainfall that Farfan said "poses a risk for the personnel."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He did not rule out the possibility of more landslides due to the ongoing storms. BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>