Hanoi (VNA) – Hundreds of people fled their homes in the Philippines on September 11 after a volcano spurted harmful gases, as experts warned of a potential eruption.
About 300 residents of villages within 4km of the Kanlaon volcano crater in the centre of the country were evacuated on September 10 as a precaution, the local government of nearby Canlaon city said.
The evacuees have taken temporary shelter at schools and community centres away from the volcano, local media reported.
Classes were suspended and some tourist spots in the city of around 60,000 people closed on September 11 due to the volcano warning.
Kanlaon’s daily average emission of sulphur dioxide almost tripled to 9,985 tonnes on September 10. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, this is the highest emission from the volcano recorded since instrumental gas monitoring began.
Rising more than 2,400m above sea level on the central island of Negros, Kanlaon is one of 24 active volcanoes in the Philippines. It has erupted 15 times in the past nine years./.
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