Sixty-two dead in Guatemala volcano eruption - official

  05 June 2018    Read: 1531
Sixty-two dead in Guatemala volcano eruption - official

The number of fatalities from a massive volcano eruption in Guatemala rose to 62 on Monday, an official in the Central American country said, Reuters reported.

Only 13 of the dead have been identified so far, Mirna Zeledon, a spokeswoman for Guatemala’s National Institute of Forensic Sciences told Reuters.

The eruption of Fuego - Spanish for “fire” - on Sunday was the biggest in more than four decades, forcing the closure of Guatemala’s main international airport and dumping ash on thousands of acres (hectares) of coffee farms on the volcano’s slopes.


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