A cruise ship rescued hundreds of people in St Vincent yesterday after delivering supplies to the volcano-hit Caribbean island.
Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship Celebrity Reflection took 159 passengers, including 108 stranded Americans, from the island to Philipsburg in Dutch Sint Maarten.
It also delivered water and other vital supplies to people left on the island coated in ash from a week of violent eruptions.
La Soufrière volcano shot out another explosive burst of gas and ash earlier yesterday morning as thousands continue to be affected by the destruction.
The explosions that began on April 9 forced some 20,000 to flee the northern end of the eastern Caribbean island for shelters and contaminated water supplies across the island.
New Blast at St Vincent Volcano; Cruise Ship Helps Evacuees
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New blast at St. Vincent volcano; cruise ship helps evacuees
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British, Canadian and U.S. nationals line up alongside the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Reflection to be evacuated free of charge, in Kingstown on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent, Friday, April 16, 2021. La Soufriere volcano has shot out another explosive burst of gas and ash Friday morning as the cruise ship arrived to evacuate some of the foreigners who had been stuck on a St. Vincent island by a week of violent eruptions. (AP Photo/Orvil Samuel)
KINGSTOWN – La Soufriere volcano shot out another explosive burst of gas and ash on Friday as a cruise ship arrived to evacuate some of the foreigners who had been stuck on a St. Vincent island coated in ash from a week of violent eruptions.
La Soufriere volcano has shot out another explosive burst of gas and ash as a cruise ship arrived to evacuate some of the foreigners who had been stuck on a St. Vincent island coated in ash from a week of violent eruptions.
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Plumes of ash rise from the La Soufriere volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Friday morning s blast “wasn’t a big explosion compared to the ones that we (had) last weekend, but it was big enough to punch a hole through the clouds, said Richard Robertson, lead scientist at the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center, in an interview with local NBC radio. “Probably got up to 8,000 meters.