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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Astrid Surez

Parents search for children missing since a volcanic eruption in Colombia 40 years ago

Colombia Volcano Anniversary - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Martha Lucía López released the boat into the river alongside hundreds of others with the faces of missing children, in one last attempt to find her son, or rather, to pray that he would find her.

Her son, Sergio Melendro, was one of hundreds of children reported missing when a volcanic eruption devastated the Colombian town Armero on Nov. 13, 1985, and whose whereabouts remains unknown.

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