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Colombia has begun recovery efforts after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake caused widespread damage across the western part of the country, killing 329 people, injuring 4,592 and leaving at least 234 missing.

President Abelardo De La Espriella toured affected areas and announced the delivery of 480 tonnes of reconstruction materials to Quibdo.

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00:01Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella on Monday toured earthquake-affected areas
00:07in Choco and Valle del Cauca, pledging aid to victims.
00:11De la Espriella handed reconstruction certificates to victims in Buenaventura and toured warehouses
00:17storing construction materials in Quibdo.
00:19He said 480 tons of reconstruction materials had arrived in Quibdo, with distribution set
00:25to begin immediately.
00:27The President said the government was committed to starting the recovery process immediately
00:32rather than delaying reconstruction.
00:34We have to put our hands on the work, dear compatriots.
00:38There is no time to lose.
00:40We decide quickly and begin to work.
00:44The machinery that came to Quibdo is a clear sign of that this process is not a promise,
00:53it is a reality.
00:53And this place begins to become a point of action.
00:58Today the delivery of the first 480 tons of materials, so that the recovery begins now and not in
01:09months, dear Governor.
01:11The earthquake has claimed 329 lives, injured 4,592 people, and left at least 234 others missing.
01:21The 7.4 magnitude earthquake caused severe damage across western Colombia, from the Pacific
01:28port of Buenaventura through the country's coffee-growing region, to major western cities
01:33cities, including Kali and Pereira.
01:36The chief of the Pacific port of the Pacific port of the Pacific port.
01:39This is a case of a storm surge in 2011 on the Pacific port, which at least in the Praxis
01:45have no sense of aroused with the nuclear power of power of power.
01:45You
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