A volcano erupted on the Spanish Canary island of La Palma, sending fountains of red molten lava and plumes of smoke and ash into the air from the Cumbre Vieja national park
Authorities had begun evacuating the infirm and some farm animals from nearby villages before the eruption at 3:15 p.m. on a wooded slope in the sparsely populated Cabeza de Vaca area, according to the islands' government.
After nightfall, video footage showed fountains of lava shooting hundreds of metres into the sky, and at least three incandescent orange rivers of molten rock pouring down the hill, tearing gashes into woods and farmland, and spreading as they reached lower ground. "When the volcano erupted today, I was scared. For journalists it is something spectacular, for us it is a tragedy. I think the lava has reached some relatives' houses," local resident Isabel Fuentes, 55, told Spanish television TVE.
La Palma had been on high alert after more than 22,000 tremors were reported in the space of a week in Cumbre Vieja, a chain of volcanoes that last had a major eruption in 1971 and is one of the most active volcanic regions in the Canaries.
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