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Guatemalan authorities said Monday a red alert after the new eruption of Fuego volcano, forcing nearly 3,000 residents to flee.
The crater of Fuego has taken a blazing light for the fifth time this year, a month after the last and after a rain of rocks, ashes and toxic gases that has made nearly 200 dead and 235 missing.
A spokesman for the Guatemalan disaster management agency, CONRED, said that 2,995 residents of Escuintla Municipality and two other districts had been moved to shelters as a precautionary measure.
The spokesman, David de Leon, told the press that the eruption had become more and more violent after having started Sunday morning on the volcano, from a height of 3763 meters, located at 35 kilometers from Guatemala City.
Escuintla authorities have declared the red alert.
The lava rises 500 meters above the crater of Fuego, while the column of ash exceeds one kilometer above the volcanic cone and causes a rain of particles, said the Institute of Volcanology.
The previous eruption lasted from October 12 to 13 with loud boom and lava flow. This resulted in the evacuation of 62 people and the closure of a highway.
The Fuego volcano in Guatemala has burst five times this year, the worst being in June, when nearly 200 people died.
