Last Sunday the towns located in the skirt of the volcano of fire in Guatemala were surprised by a cloud of ash and lava coming from the eruption of the volcano of fire that since 1974 had not registered activity. This eruption left as a balance to date 72 people killed and several hundreds disappeared, the authorities report more than one million five hundred thousand victims.
On Tuesday, alarms were again generated in the residents of the rodeo community due to a new volcano activity, leaving behind a cloud of ash and lava. The inhabitants of the surrounding sectors expressed their concern for the damages suffered as well as for the fallen relatives.
The director of the National Institute of Forensic Sciences, Fanuel Garcia, said on Tuesday that two bodies entered the provisional morgue of the village of Hunahpú, in the southern department of Escuintla, which raised the number of confirmed deaths to 72.
The sky darkened. Dense columns of smoke and ashes once again covered a community where the two-story houses were already underground.
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People screamed desperately and climbed into the car that could get help. The sirens and horns sounded downhill.
Higher up, the village buried like a new Pompeii stood as a warning of what these eruptions mean.
I can't imagine going through this. It must be like the end of the world for them.