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QUITO, Ecuador — The Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador is billowing ash into the sky and sending super-hot pyroclastic flows surging down its slopes, causing authorities to evacuate nearby villages.
Hugo Yepez, director of Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute, said no one has been injured and no village has been damaged. He said people within 8 miles of the volcano’s center were evacuated Saturday as a precaution.
An eruption of ash from Tungurahua in May caused a one-day shutdown of the international airport at Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil. Thousands of people near the volcano also were evacuated.
Denver Post wire services
