Quake Fears Keep Colombians Outdoors

The death toll has risen to eight in Saturday’s 5.2 magnitude earthquake in southern Colombia, the government’s disaster office reported Sunday.

Hundreds of residents of Pasto, a city near the epicenter 350 miles south of Bogota, slept in parks or makeshift shelters as aftershocks from Saturday’s quake jolted the area.

The victims included at least five people who died in a house demolished by a rockslide. All eight fatalities occurred in Pasto.

About 50 buildings were destroyed or damaged in the quake, the disaster office reported.