A mum-of-two was crushed to death by a giant, 30ft long boulder in a freak rockfall.
Married, Sonia Stella Restrepo Alzate had just stepped off a bus onto the roadside.
Rocks then started tumbling down the mountainside.
Firefighters were dispatched but found the 53-year-old’s lifeless body beneath the rubble.
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Some of the rocks that crashed down onto the road were so heavy that it took the authorities all night to clear the scene on Wednesday (14 Feb).
By 10am the next day (15 Feb), only one lane had been reopened to traffic.
Sonia was heading home to her family from the clothing factory where she worked when the disaster struck near Don Matías, northeast of Medellín, Colombia.
There had been a small landslide in the same spot a short while earlier.
Sonia was looking around at the debris when there was a loud crack.
The huge boulder then began hurtling down the slope and hit her before she had a chance to react, local media report.
It took officials until yesterday (15 Feb) morning to remove her body from the scene.
Sonia usually went to work by motorbike but had fatefully decided to take the bus that day, according to local media.
Her husband of 30 years, Héctor Arnobys Monsalve, said: “I accompanied her, we said goodbye like we do every day, and in the afternoon, you expect her to come back, just like every day.”
“We had ambitions to retire together, but now it’s all gone to waste.”
