At least six people were killed and another 20 injured on Sunday when Guatemala’s Fuego volcano erupted violently, spewing a stream of red-hot lava and belching a thick plume of black smoke and ash that rained onto the capital and other regions. “It’s a river of lava that overflowed its banks and affected the Rodeo village. There are injured, burned and dead people,” Sergio Cabanas, the general
secretary of Guatemala’s Conred disaster agency, said on radio. “We are evacuating and rescuing people and have reports of 20 wounded, six dead and disappeared,” said Cabanas. An ash covered woman said lava poured through corn fields and she feared more had died. “Not everyone escaped, I think they were buried,” Consuelo Hernandez told local news outlet Diario de Centroamerica in a video. READ MORE
