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Iota leaves Colombia’s Providencia island devastated

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San Andres, Nov 17 (EFE).- The Colombian island of Providencia, a 17-square-kilometer paradise in the Caribbean Sea, has been almost entirely devastated by the powerful Hurricane Iota, which destroyed infrastructure and left at least two people dead and one missing, as President Iván Duque verified Tuesday."We have a severe impact on the infrastructure, it is true – we have destruction of a large part of the housing infrastructure," said the president, who visited the islands of San Andrés and Providencia, located off the coast of Nicaragua, more than 700 kilometers from mainland Colombia.SHOT LIST: ROADS BLOCKED BY TREES AND DEBRIS IN SAN ANDRES, COLOMBIA.

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