The death toll from a volcanic eruption in Guatemala rises as family members desperately searched for the missing in makeshift morgues and on streets blanketed with ash. The most violent eruption in more than four decades, Mount Fuego’s latest eruption has so far seen the death toll rise to 62, according to a Guatemalan official. Rescue workers are having to struggle through ash and mud to find victims, as landslides partially covered buildings and trees. Guatemala’s main international airport has since closed, as ash rains down across thousands of acres of land, mostly coffee farms across the volcano’s slopes.
Since the eruption, new explosions and pyroclastic flow have continued from the volcano, as the amount of dead and injured rises. Pyroclastic flow is an explosion of lava, rocks and ash which pour down the side of a volcano, burying everything in its wake. Whilst unlike other flows this one does not glow the way molten lava does, the danger of being caught in its path is undeniable.
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