Brazil and Colombia Ravaged by Floods

Flood waters cover parts of Bogota, Colombia.

Heavy rain caused rivers to overflow destroying thousands of homes and hectares of farmland.
 

In Honda, around 15 hundred residents have been left homeless, with hundreds more expected to be affected in the next few days.
 

The local mayor is calling for action from the national government.

"It worries me that the same thing has happened ten times since I've been mayor, in the same site, affecting the same victims.

The message that I am sending to the national government is that it is necessary to do a relocation project. It is necessary to relocate this community because in two months we are going to bring back the same markets, the same tents to the same situation."

In southern Brazil, at least 10 people have died after heavy rains caused landslides and accidents. 

The national weather service  says 77.2 millimeters of rain fell overnight in the capital the largest volume registered so far this year.
 

The residents of this home were asleep when a tide of mud hit.
 

Three children died.
 

In January, floods and landslides devastated a region near Rio de Janeiro, killing over 800 people in Brazil's second worst natural disaster.