Four Ecuadorean villages are being evacuated after a volcano close to the country's capital began spewing smouldering rock and billowing columns of ash.
The government is urging 700 people living beside the Tungurahua volcano near Quito to leave the area as soon as possible.
Tungurahua - which means 'Throat of Fire' in the indigenous Quechua language - has been active since 1999 but began erupting violently on Sunday, sending red-hot clouds of gas up into the atmosphere
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-evacuated-volcano-begins-erupt-Ecuador.html
The government is urging 700 people living beside the Tungurahua volcano near Quito to leave the area as soon as possible.
Tungurahua - which means 'Throat of Fire' in the indigenous Quechua language - has been active since 1999 but began erupting violently on Sunday, sending red-hot clouds of gas up into the atmosphere
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-evacuated-volcano-begins-erupt-Ecuador.html
