Twenty-five people have been killed and hundreds injured in the most violent eruption in decades in Guatemala.<\/p>\n
The Fuego volcano, about 40km (25 miles) south-west of the capital Guatemala City, has been spewing rocks, black smoke and ash into the sky.<\/p>\n
A flow of lava hit the village of El Rodeo, killing people inside houses. The main airport in the capital, Guatemala City, has been closed.<\/p>\n
President Jimmy Morales has declared three days of national mourning.<\/p>\n
In a statement issued late on Sunday, he spoke of the nation\u2019s \u201cdeep pain\u201d caused by the \u201cirreparable losses\u201d in human lives.<\/p>\n
Sergio Caba\u00f1as, head of the country\u2019s National Disaster Management Agency (Conred), told a local radio station that a lava stream had changed course towards El Rodeo.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, El Rodeo was buried and we haven\u2019t been able to reach the La Libertad village because of the lava and maybe there are people that died there too.\u201d<\/p>\n
This eruption is the biggest since 1974, according to local experts.<\/p>\n
Caba\u00f1as later said the dead included a member of his agency\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n
Several children are among those confirmed dead.<\/p>\n
Videos published by local media show bodies lying on top of a lava flow and rescuers attending to people covered in ash.<\/p>\n
One woman told the Diario de Centroamerica that lava had poured through corn fields and she thought more people may have died.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot everyone escaped, I think they were buried,\u201d Consuelo Hernandez said.<\/p>\n
A total of about 1.7 million people have been affected by the eruption, officials say.<\/p>\n
Officials have advised people to wear masks as protection against falling ash in four of Guatemala\u2019s regions.<\/p>\n
The military is providing assistance, from rescue operations to setting up temporary shelters. \u2013 BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twenty-five people have been killed and hundreds injured in the most violent eruption in decades in Guatemala. The Fuego volcano, about 40km (25 miles) south-west of the capital Guatemala City, has been spewing rocks, black smoke and ash into the sky. A flow of lava hit the village of El Rodeo, killing people inside houses. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66347,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66345\/revisions\/66347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}