GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo – Lava from a volcanic eruption reached the airport of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s main city of Goma on Saturday, as thousands evacuated the city.
Goma residents, recalling Mount Nyiragongo’s last eruption in 2002, which killed 250 people and left 120,000 homeless, grabbed mattresses and other belongings.
As the red glow of the volcano, one of the world’s most active, tinged the nighttime sky above the lakeside city of about 2 million, some fled east toward the frontier with neighbouring Rwanda, while others escaped to the west.
Dario Tedesco, a volcanologist based in Goma, said new fractures were opening in N…
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