LA PALMA, Spain (Reuters) -A volcano erupted on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma on Sunday, sending lava shooting into the air and streaming in rivers towards houses in two villages from the Cumbre Vieja national park in the south of the island. Video footage shared on social media, which Reuters has been unable to verify, showed the lava entering a house. I think the lava has reached some relatives’ houses,” local resident Isabel Fuentes, 55, told Spanish television TVE. In 1971, one man was killed as he was taking photographs near the lava flows, but no property was damaged. The earliest recorded eruption in La Palma was in 1430, according to the Spanish National Geographical Institute (ING).

Source: MetroXpress September 19, 2021 15:00 UTC