Residents of the Codavisa neighborhood in Bolivia’s capital of La Paz tried to salvage their belongings and pets from their wrecked homes on Tuesday (March 11) after a landslide struck a day earlier.
Many pets were left behind in the chaos.
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00:00Residents of Cotavisa, a neighborhood in Bolivia's capital, struggled to recover their belongings
00:08and pets on Tuesday after a landslide struck the area a day earlier.
00:13Many pets were left behind in the chaos.
00:16The La Paz mayor's office launched a rescue effort to temporarily shelter the animals
00:21until their owners could reclaim them.
00:25If you don't have a place to leave them, leave them in zoonosis, leaving their data and everything,
00:30so that when this is taken care of, you can also pick them up,
00:33because take into account that they are part of the family.
00:36They are practically like scared children.
00:39I have one in my arms right now who is scared.
00:41Authorities attributed the landslide to years of heavy rainfall saturating the soil.
00:47In Chascapampa, another landslide on Tuesday claimed a life,
00:51destroying a house and prompting a rescue effort to recover the victim from the rubble.