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Lava from a volcano reaches the oversea connected the Canary land of La Palma, Spain successful the aboriginal hours of Wednesday Sept. 29, 2021. Lava from the caller volcano connected the Canary Island of La Palma reached the Atlantic water past night, astatine the country known arsenic Los Guirres beach, besides known arsenic Playa Nueva (New Beach). (AP Photo/Saul Santos)

LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE – Lava from a volcano connected Spain’s Canary Islands has reached the oversea aft 10 days of wiping retired hundreds of homes and causing the evacuation of thousands of residents.

Columns of steam that experts had warned could incorporate toxic gases changeable upward erstwhile the agleam reddish molten stone tumbled into the Atlantic Ocean astatine 11 p.m. connected Tuesday.

The country had been evacuated for respective days arsenic authorities waited for the lava to scope the water. Its erratic flows and changes successful the terrain had slowed its progress.

Lava flows from the Sept. 19 eruption connected La Palma person destroyed astatine slightest 589 buildings, mostly homes connected the island’s southwestern broadside that were caught connected a slope beneath the volcano.

No deaths oregon superior injuries person been reported, acknowledgment to the punctual evacuations of implicit 6,000 radical successful the archetypal hours aft past week's eruption.

La Palma, location to astir 85,000 people, is portion of the volcanic Canary Islands, an archipelago disconnected northwest Africa. The land is astir 35 kilometers (22 miles) agelong and 20 kilometers (12 miles) wide astatine its broadest point.

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