<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">A landslide engulfed a road Sunday in Colombia, killing three people and leaving some 20 trapped in the mud, authorities said.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Crews were searching for people riding on a bus and a motorcycle that were caught up in the accident in a remote areas of a municipality called Pueblo Rico in northwest Colombia.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">"Nine rescued, three fatalities and an estimated 20 who remain to be found. It is a tragedy," President Gustavo Petro wrote on Twitter.</div><div style="text-align: justify; ">Civil defense officials said one of the dead was a girl aged about seven.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">One survivor said the driver of the bus managed to dodge the worst of the landslide.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">"Part of it was coming down and the bus was a little bit back from that. The bus driver was backing up when it all came crashing down," Andres Ibarguen told radio station Lloro Stereo.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">The bus had set out from the city of Cali with 25 passengers, civil defense officials said.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">This rainy season that began in August is Colombia's worst in 40 years, according to the government, causing accidents that have left more than 270 people dead. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>