3-year-old girl rescued 100 hours after Colombia earthquake

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Aug 16, 2026 · 58 words

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What to know about 3-year-old girl rescued 100 hours after Colombia earthquake

3-year-old girl rescued 100 hours after Colombia earthquake NewsFeed 3-year-old girl rescued 100 hours after Colombia earthquake A three-year-old girl and a 75-year-old man have been pulled alive from the rubble days after Colombia’s earthquake, surviving…

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Why it matters

Rescue teams continue searching for survivors among the 320 people still missing.

Common ground

The clearest point to anchor on is this: surviving beyond the critical 72-hour window.

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What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: 3-year-old girl rescued 100 hours after Colombia earthquake?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that surviving beyond the critical 72-hour window?
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “surviving beyond the critical 72-hour window”

CORROBORATED

Multiple sources explicitly state the survivors were rescued after 100 hours, which exceeds the critical 72-hour window.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 10 August 2026, a Mw 7.4–7.5 earthquake struck the department of Chocó in Colombia, killing at least 331 people, injuring more than 4,600 others, leaving 240 confirmed missing and causing extensive…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Colombia_earthquake

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country located in South America, with insular regions in North America. Colombia's mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of diplomatic missions of Colombia. As of February 2026, Colombia currently has 72 embassies 6 permanent missions to multilateral organizations. Honorary consulates and the overseas off…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_of…

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Claim 2: “Rescue teams continue searching for survivors among the 320 people still missing.”

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There is a conflict between news reports and Wikipedia. Three separate web search results and a cross-reference (Nypost) report 320 people missing, while the Wikipedia entry for the '2026 Colombia earthquake' reports 240 confirmed missing.

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web search NEUTRAL — A magnitude 7.4 earthquake in western Colombia has killed at least 294 people, left 320 missing and displaced thousands as rescue teams search unstable ruins.
https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/e139a6dd_colombia-s_7-4-magnitud…

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Claim 3: “A three-year-old girl and a 75-year-old man have been pulled alive from the rubble days after Colombia’s earthquake”

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Multiple independent web search results confirm that a 3-year-old girl and a 75-year-old man were rescued alive from the rubble following the earthquake in Colombia.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colombians (Spanish: Colombianos) are people identified with the country of Colombia. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Colombians, several (or all) of these …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombians

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gran Colombia (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈɡɾaŋ koˈlombja] , "Great Colombia"), also known as Greater Colombia and officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish: República de Colombia), was the Colombian …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Colombia

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