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La Palma: Lava on the island “swallows” a cement factory – Quarantined 3,000 inhabitants

THE lavawhich is still flowing from Kubre Vieha volcano on the island La Palma, in the Canary Islands, destroyed today, Monday, a cement factory in the area, as a result of which a cloud potentially toxic fumes.

In fact, the authorities ordered them approximately 3,000 inhabitants of El Paso and Los Lianos do not want to stay in their homes, with their windows and doors closed and to turn off the air conditioners, so as not to inhale the smoke from the burning factory that “swallows” it slowly. lava.

«Close inside, if possible indoors“, Said the civil protection via Twitter.

After the partial collapse of the volcanic cone on Saturday, one new lava river is now heading towards the sea, destroying in its course banana and avocado plantations and all the houses that were left in the city of Todoke, according to the APE MPE.

The lava has been destroyed for the past three weeks 1,186 buildings, according to the Canary Islands Volcanoes Institute. About 6,000 inhabitants have been removed from their homes on the island of La Palma.

It is noted, finally, that the above is Tuesday a volcanic eruption on the island within a century, after those of San Juan in 1949 and Tenegia in 1971.

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