Search for Colombia earthquake survivors enters critical window

Colombian rescue teams raced on Wednesday to find survivors still trapped beneath collapsed buildings two days after a powerful earthquake killed close to 250 people across the nation's western valleys and coffee-growing region.



"We are in a race against time to save lives," Cali Mayor Alejandro Eder told reporters, warning there was now less than a day left of a critical 72-hour window during which there are far greater chances of finding quake survivors.



"We will keep working after this window, but it is important to rescue the most people we can in this day we have left," he said, adding that rescue workers needed silence and order to detect survivors under the mountains of rubble.