GUATEMALA CITY: Guatemala’s Fuego volcano shot ash miles into the air on Friday (Jun 6) as authorities stated they’d evacuated greater than 700 individuals from their houses as a precaution.
A lava stream was increase across the crater of the volcano, which lies about 18 km (11 miles) from the central metropolis of Antigua Guatemala, seismology company INSIVUMEH stated.
Some ash plumes reached round 5 km into the air, it added
Authorities have been warning of elevated exercise across the energetic volcano this week.
“We’ve got evacuated over 700 individuals who have spent the evening in shelters. We evacuated them as a precaution,” catastrophe company CONRED stated on Friday.
Individuals had been moved from the close by areas of Escuintla, Sacatepequez and Chimaltenango, it added.
