Lava continues to flow slowly from a volcano that erupted in Spain’s Canary Islands off northwest Africa. More than 5,000 people on the island of La Palma have been evacuated from their homes.
The Associated Press’s Canary Islands off northwest Africa, but the head of the regional government said Monday he expects no injuries to people in the area after some 5,000 were evacuated.
“There will be considerable material damage,” he said. “We hope there won’t be any personal injuries.”“The lava probably won’t take any lives but it will destroy everything it encounters,” Nemesio Pérez, scientific coordinator at the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, told SER. 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.
The Canary Islands Volcanology Institute reported the initial eruption shortly after 3 p.m. near the southern end of the island, which saw its last eruption in 1971.
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