Armero, Colombia - The Town That Drowned in the Dark
Based on true events.
On November 13th, 1985, the Colombian town of Armero — home to nearly 30,000 people — was buried alive in fifteen minutes. A volcano that scientists had been tracking for over a year sent a wall of volcanic mud down the river valley in the middle of the night, and by morning, Armero was gone. But the most terrifying part of this story isn't the eruption. It's the thirteen-year-old girl who survived it — and what happened to her over the next sixty hours.
Join Carman Carrion for the true story of Omayra Sánchez Garzón, the Armero tragedy, and the government that watched…
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