A surge of lava destroyed around 100 homes on Spain's Canary Islands after a volcano eruption forced some 5,000 people to leave the area
Elsewhere, piles of glowing lava surged onto the patio of a house.
It also consumed a local primary school where 25 children were enrolled, the headmistress told Cadena Ser radio. He said a wall of lava 6 meters high “is consuming houses, infrastructure, crops in its path to the coast,” state news agency Efe reported. An "earthquake swarm" – a sequence of seismic events occurring over a short period – began on September 11.
"My house shook so much it felt like it was going to collapse," she told AFP, saying she had rushed over to her parents house to help them get out."The images are really disturbing. Now they are saying the volcano could continue erupting for three months.Death toll from Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption rises to 20Local officials believe the lava were likely to move southwest towards inhabited and wooded areas, before reaching the coast.
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