WORLD NEWS | Guatemala volcano erupts force over 1,000 to evacuate

Guatemala City [Guatemala]May 5 (ANI/WAM): Authorities in Guatemala evacuated more than 1,000 people and closed a road as Central America’s most active volcano erupted Thursday, spewing thick clouds over farms and towns not far from the capital. Volcanic ash cloud.

Civil defense official Oscar Cosio said 1,054 people in five communities near the foot of the volcano had been evacuated and taken to a sports complex.

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That number is likely to rise as a full accounting of evacuees is done, he said.

Guatemala’s Conrad Disaster Center said the volcano, named Fuego, which means “fire” in Spanish, was spewing a “pyroclastic flow” – a high temperature of gas, ash and rock fragments The mixture, “falls down the sides of the volcano at breakneck speed” in the volcanic complex. “

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Fuego’s ash column reached more than 6,000 meters above sea level.

Emissions are likely to increase as “high levels” of eruption continue, and it has warned that mudslides are possible, based on rainfall forecasts. (ANI/WAM)

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