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At least 14 people have died and six are missing in Colombia's central Caldas province after a bus in which they were traveling were buried by a major landslide minesale.com/Jewelry/?Designer=454&Designersm=458:minesale.com/Jewelry/?Designer=454&Designersm=458]Tiffany Bracelets, local police commander Alejandro Bustamante said on Thursday.
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