Colombia clears migrant camp as Venezuela exodus continues


  • World
  • Wednesday, 16 Jan 2019

A Venezuelan migrant girl carries her belongings out of a tent inside a temporary humanitarian camp that is closed by the government, in Bogota, Colombia January 15, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian authorities evacuated a camp that housed Venezuelan immigrants in the capital of Bogota on Tuesday, dismantling a temporary shelter even as the flow of refugees from the crisis-stricken neighbouring nation is expected to continue unabated.

Yellow tents that once housed families were piled into a corner of the football pitch that in November was turned into a temporary shelter for some 600 Venezuelan migrants who had previously been sleeping outside the city's main bus terminal.

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