11 killed in Colombia floods
At least 11 people were killed and three others missing after torrential rains lashed Colombia over the past two days, local media said on Tuesday.

In Maripi District, in the northern Boyaca department, three adults and three children of the same family were killed when the car they were aboard was swept away by floods.

In a similar accident in the northwestern Antioquia department, three soldiers drowned and three others disappeared while trying to cross a river during a routine patrol.

Heavy rains also caused a landslide which buried a house in a rural area of Belen de Umbria, in Risaralda department, killing two children.

Traffic leading to the southwestern municipality of Colombia was disrupted when the "El Milagro" bridge was swept away by floods from the Ambica river.

In February, 32 people died and thousands more were left homeless in Santander and Norte de Santander Departments in northeastern Colombia.