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Bolivia (Plurinational State of):Landslide:2003/03/31

Duration	2003/03/31	A landslide roared in Bolivias tropical lowlands early, killing three people, injuring four others and burying dozens of homes
Country or District	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Name	Landslide

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Personal Injury	Material Damage	Others
OCHA Situation Report No.3 2003/04/25
Affected: 690 people (376 are children) Killed: 24 people Injured: 11 people Missing: 45 people Relocated: 300 people Orphan children: 59	Totally destroyed: 116 houses Partially destroyed:　33 houses
OCHA Situation Report No.2 2003/04/03
Dead: 14 people Injured: 168 Affected: 600 persons (125 families and 138 single persons) 25 children lost both parents	Destroyed: close to 200 homes

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Report/Articles OCHA Situation Report No.3 2003/04/25 24 people killed, 11 people injured. OCHA Situation Report No.2 2003/04/03 14 deaths, 168 injured OCHA Situation Report 2003/04/01 On the morning of 31 March in Chima, province of Larecaja in the department of La Paz, an avalanche occurred after heavy rains, burying 400 houses and affecting approximately 700 families. CNN News 2003/04/01 Firefighters and villagers raced Tuesday to unearth dozens of people trapped under a mass of red clay, rocks and rubble from a landslide which has killed at least 13 people and likely more. Reuters Alertnet 2003/03/31 Hundreds of people were feared buried when a landslide engulfed a remote Bolivian gold-mining town. CNN News 2003/03/31 Bolivia landslide buries homes

Geographycal Data Information ReliefWeb 2003/04/03 Location Map Yahoo News 2003/03/31 A landslide buried hundreds of homes in a mining town in northern Bolivia Monday.

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