The stratovolcano southwest of the city of Antigua began erupting on Sunday, with ash and lava spewing from it’s carter.
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Nearly 4,000 people were evacuated on Monday from areas around Guatemala’s Fuego volcano, which began violently erupting overnight, the country’s disaster agency Conred said.
The volcano spewed out dangerous flows of fast-moving clouds of hot ash, lava and gas early Monday and more than 2,000 people had taken refuge in shelters so far, officials from the agency told reporters. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
More dangerous flows of hot ash and lava could be expelled, said Juan Pablo Oliva, the head of the country’s seismological, volcanic and meteorological institute Insivumeh.
It comes five months after almost 200 people were buried by volcanic ash and mud during a violent eruption in June. That eruption generated pyroclastic flows – fast-moving mixtures of very hot gas and volcanic matter – which descended down the slopes, engulfing communities such as El Rodeo and San Miguel Los Lotes.
In June, explosive flows from Fuego killed more than 190 people.
Volcanologists say lava is rising 500m above the volcano’s crater.
This is the fifth eruption so far this year of the 3,763-meter (12,346-feet) volcano, one of the most active in Central America, about 19 miles (30 km) south of Guatemala City.
The ash cloud exceeds a height of 1km (3,280ft) above the 3,763m-tall (12,250ft) volcano.
Fuego is one of Latin America’s most active volcanoes.
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