Rescuers have clawed through mud and timber searching for survivors of a mudslide in southern Colombia that killed 262 people, including 43 children, and left relatives desperately seeking loved ones.
Survivors scrambled onto roofs or hung onto trees as a sea of mud, boulders and debris engulfed the village of Mocoa late Friday.
Some watched as their children and relatives were swept helplessly away.
Debris was everywhere in the remote Amazon town: buried cars, uprooted trees, children's toys and odd shoes sticking up out of the mud.
Survivors gathered at the local hospital and at the cemetery to search for family members and friends.
The National Disaster Risk Management Unit raised the death toll to 262 tonight.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos earlier said that at least 43 children were among the dead.
The Red Cross counted a further 262 people injured and 220 missing.
Hundreds of rescuers were working at the scene of the disaster, using mechanical diggers in the search, said the unit's director, Carlos Ivan Marquez.
"The first 48 hours of the search have been hard but effective and we think the number of people we now have to find is minimal," he told Caracol Radio.
Mr Santos said the mudslide destroyed a local aqueduct and knocked out power to much of the surrounding department.
He said four emergency water treatment plants would be set up "to avoid an epidemic and an even bigger public health crisis."
Mr Santos also blamed climate change for the disaster, saying Mocoa had received one-third of its usual monthly rain in just one night, causing rivers to burst their banks.
Most of the hardest-hit neighborhoods in the town of 40,000 are poor and populated with people uprooted during Colombia's five-decade-long civil war.
The Pacific northwest of South America has been hit hard by recent floods and mudslides, with scores killed in Peru and Ecuador.
Colombia's worst ever disaster was a volcanic eruption in 1985 that triggered a landslide and destroyed the city of Armero, killing 25,000 people.
Disaster officials said more than 500 people were staying in emergency housing and social services had helped ten lost children find their parents.
Families of the dead will receive about $6,400 in aid and the government will cover hospital and funeral costs.
Even in a country where heavy rains, a mountainous landscape and informal construction combine to make landslides a common occurrence, the scale of the Mocoa disaster was daunting compared to recent tragedies, including a 2015 landslide that killed nearly 100 people.
