Colombia declared three days of mourning on Wednesday for the victims of an earthquake that demolished buildings in the west of the country, killing more than 200 people.
At magnitude 7.4, Monday's quake was the strongest to hit Colombia in a century.
The government said flags would be lowered to half-staff on official buildings, as well as at Colombian embassies around the world, "in honour of all the dead."
Frantic attempts to find survivors continued, as authorities revised the death toll down to 216 after local officials in Cali corrected earlier figures.
In Pereira and in Cali, emergency crews used cranes, dogs and heavy machinery to search ruined buildings while volunteers formed human chains to clear debris by hand, hoping to reach people still trapped beneath collapsed structures.











