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headline1ead or introductionbodywhwhenwherewhowhatwhyhowthe inverted pyramid formwhin theorder of descending importancethe inverted pyramid formintroduction containing most important or most interestinginformationmore facts supporting information or background quotes or more facts of lesser importanceminor details least significant information 20011122november 221943est200128 killed in colombia landslideby juan pablo toroassociated press writerfiladelfia colom biaaprain-softened walls of a condemned strip mine crashed down onscores of gold miners in western colom- bia thursdaykillingat least 28 and leaving 40others missingauthorities saidthe victims were said to be poor people who ignored government warnings that erosion hadmade the mine unsafeit appeared both the illegal digging and recent heavy rains were toblame for the accidentsurvivors said two separate mudslides occurred at the site in filadelfiaa small town120 miles west of bogotthe second avalanche buried miners who were trying to rescue friends who had been engulfed in the first avalancherescuers shoveled furiously for hours in hopes of finding som- ebody alivebutonly recovered bodiesas night fell thursdaynational disaster chief eduardo jose gonzalez said hopes of finding anyone alive waned as crews prepared to suspend operationsthe search was to resume fridaygonzalez said 28bodies had been recoveredand at least 40 people were missing thirty-two miners were reported injured and taken to hospitalshundreds of people had gathered at the scenemany of them anguished and weepingrelativesemergency crews from the red cross andthe civil defense forces were using heavy machinery to remove the thick mud spread overfrom a river running up to the hillsideused by the miners to rinse gold particles fromdirtsurvivors said the earth crashed down without warning on a group of about 200 people trying to scrape gold from the well-worn hill-sidethe workers were toiling with shovelsand picks inside a deep hole they had carved into the hillthe cavern had no structuralsupportsmany workers managed to scramble out of the way or crawl out from beneath the mudothers were not so luckywe heard a very loud sound and the hill suddenly fell down upon ussaid 20-year-old manuel loaizai was trapped up to my knees but some of the others dragged me outloaiza said he made less than 9a day at the crude minehis 39-year-old uncle is still missing under the mudaccording to julian arboledaan aide to caldas state governor luis alfonso ariasof- ficials ordered the mine closed several months agobut residents thrown out of workby colom bias econom- ic downturn took the risk of working there anywayarboleda saidaccording to the governments disaster relief agencynearly 200 people died in a poor neighborhood in the city of medellinwhen a 1987 landslide buried their houseslandslides buried 150 dam workers in 1983 and a rescue team sent on their behalfdatelinefiladelfiacolombiaapnovember 221943est112