The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, reported this Tuesday that his department has accounted for 164 people of Spanish nationality missing in Colombia after the earthquake that the country suffered this Monday, but that it has no record of national injured or deceased.
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The minister said this at the press conference he held in Ceuta after meeting with the president of the autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas, where he detailed that from the consular services he has been able to establish contact with all the Spaniards they know are in Colombia, except for 164.
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In this context, he has asked Spaniards who are in the country or their relatives to contact the Embassy or the Consulate General to report their status.
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Furthermore, he has guaranteed that the aid from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID) is available to the “brotherly people” of Colombia, just as it is also available in Venezuela, where 56 Spaniards have already been counted dead and 136 missing after the earthquake a few weeks ago.
