25 dead as Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupts
Nearly 300 people have been injured in the most violent eruption in more than four decades,
Volcan de Fuego, whose name means “Volcano of Fire”, spewed an 5-mile stream of red hot lava and belched a thick plume of black smoke and ash that rained onto the capital and other regions.
The charred bodies of victims laid on the steaming, ashen remnants of a pyroclastic flow as rescuers attended to badly injured victims in the aftermath of the eruption.
It was the 12,346-feet volcano’s second eruption this year.
“It’s a river of lava that overflowed its banks and affected the El Rodeo village. There are injured, burned and dead people,” Sergio Cabanas, the general secretary of Guatemala’s CONRED national disaster management agency, said on radio.
Published: by Radio NewsHub