25 die as Guatemala volcano erupts

SAN JUAN ALOTENANGO (Guatemala), June 04 (Reuters): An estimated 25 people, including at least three children, were killed and nearly 300 injured on Sunday in the most violent eruption of Guatemala's Fuego volcano.
Volcan de Fuego, whose name means "Volcano of Fire", spewed an eight-kilometre (five-mile) stream of red hot lava and belched a thick plume of black smoke and ash that rained onto the capital and other regions.
The charred bodies of victims laid on the steaming, ashen remnants of a pyroclastic flow as rescuers attended to badly injured victims in the aftermath of the eruption.
It was the 3,763-meter (12,346-feet) volcano's second eruption this year.
"It's a river of lava that overflowed its banks and affected the El Rodeo village. There are injured, burned and dead people," Sergio Cabanas, said on radio.