A volcano erupted in southwest Iceland on Sunday, posing an immediate threat to a nearby fishing town that had been evacuated over fears of an outbreak, authorities said.
Iceland Civil Protection/ReutersA volcano erupted just north of the town of Grindavik in southwest Iceland on Sunday, just hours after its 4,000 residents evacuated. “No lives are in danger, although infrastructure may be under threat,” Iceland's President Gudni Johannesson said in a post on X. In the past few weeks, Icelandic authorities erected rock and earthen barriers to stop the lava flow from reaching Grindavik, but the eruption appears to have already breached the town's defenses. The Ice
they are now keeping a close eye on whether it enters the town, they are urging people to stay away and not to go sightseeing. if you want to carry on watching that live feed, you can do so on the bbc news website. we have a special, continuous live feed of the volcano erupting in iceland. to the middle east now. families of israeli hostages held in gaza have taken part in a rally through the night to demand their release, as the war between israel and hamas enters its 100th day. they were joined on saturday evening by tens of thousands of protesters, some of whom blamed the government of benjamin netanyahu for failing to prevent the hamas there are growing demands in israel for the release of the more than 130 hostages held in gaza since october
but also a shocking start to the new year is that lava creeps closer and closer to the fishing village. you can see the lava moving closer to the people in the town of grindavik. we can see that the experts they are saying that the eruption is a quarter of the size that there was last month. but the fisher, that is where the lava is coming from, is about one kilometre in length according to a geologist who flew over the area in a helicopter. but they are also saying it is uncertain whether that has reached its full length at the moment so they are keeping a close eye on that. the civil defence also are urging sightseers to stay away and let them do theirjob. of course iceland has a lot of duress who come to see the landscape and one of the things they will want to see is the volcano.