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Families honor missing children in 40th anniversary memorial for Armero disaster in Colombia

HONDA, TOLIMA, COLOMBIA - NOV. 13, 2025: Residents and families gathered in the municipality of Honda on Thursday, Nov. 13, to launch small boats bearing the faces of children who disappeared in the 1985 Armero disaster, as Colombia marked 40 years since the Nevado del Ruiz volcano eruption triggered a mudslide that buried the town and killed around 23,000 people.The avalanche of mud, rocks and debris wiped out nearly the entire community of Armero Guayabal in the central department of Tolima, which then had between 25,000 and 29,000 residents.Around 580 children went missing in the aftermath, many believed to have been separated from their families and taken into irregular adoptions in Colombia and abroad.Relatives say the symbolic act is both a tribute and a renewed call for information that could help clarify the fate of the missing children.(Footage by Jorge Eliecer Bastidas Barreto/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
HONDA, TOLIMA, COLOMBIA - NOV. 13, 2025: Residents and families gathered in the municipality of Honda on Thursday, Nov. 13, to launch small boats bearing the faces of children who disappeared in the 1985 Armero disaster, as Colombia marked 40 years since the Nevado del Ruiz volcano eruption triggered a mudslide that buried the town and killed around 23,000 people.The avalanche of mud, rocks and debris wiped out nearly the entire community of Armero Guayabal in the central department of Tolima, which then had between 25,000 and 29,000 residents.Around 580 children went missing in the aftermath, many believed to have been separated from their families and taken into irregular adoptions in Colombia and abroad.Relatives say the symbolic act is both a tribute and a renewed call for information that could help clarify the fate of the missing children.(Footage by Jorge Eliecer Bastidas Barreto/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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November 13, 2025
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