‘The Bodies Are Decomposing’ After a Mudslide in Colombia<br />Mr. Estrella said that Now the bodies are decomposing because they are in open air,<br />"There’s not a single drop of drinkable water — we need water, that’s what’s urgent —<br />and there’s nothing to eat," Marisol González, the head of a nearby technological institute, told the newspaper El Tiempo.<br />"But the water caught up to them in the street, and my mother let go of his hand." Mr.<br />Santos has promised to pour state resources into staging a full recovery for the city.<br />The bodies were piling up on Monday morning in Mocoa, a Colombian city where mud<br />and debris had made it impossible in places to see that anyone had ever lived there.<br />Mr. Piaguaje, the radio journalist, said there were so many bodies that there was no one to bury them all.<br />And family members, like Mr. Estrella, pleaded for the bodies of loved ones so they could offer them a proper burial.<br />Rescue teams, some covered in mud, waded through a landscape of stone<br />and earth in what in many cases had become a search for bodies rather than survivors.<br />"To their families we send condolences and the sympathy of the entire country."<br />Many residents of the city remained without electricity, water or gasoline.<br />Nixon Piaguaje said that The putrefaction is beginning,