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Touching Farewell to a Mother and Her Son Under the Rubble of a Building that Collapsed in Pereira Due to the Earthquake: 'I Thought I Was Going to Die'

Summary by El Tiempo
In the midst of the tragedy facing the country, Mateo Yepes and Marta Serna were able to listen to their neighbors saying they were 'living'.
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Martha Serna, a 66-year-old linguist, and her son Mateo Yepes, a 30-year-old social communicator, survived the collapse of their building in the Álamos neighbourhood in Pereira following the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Colombia last Monday, August 10. They had laid off while they were trapped in the rubble, according to the young man in an interview with Caracol Noticias, from the Santillana clinic in Manizales. Mateo recounted the mome…

In the midst of the tragedy facing the country, Mateo Yepes and Marta Serna were able to listen to their neighbors saying they were 'living'.

·Bogotá, Colombia
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El Tiempo broke the news in Bogotá, Colombia on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
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