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Nyiragongo volcano eruption sparks panic in eastern Congo 3 minutes read
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Kinshasa, May 23 (EFE).- The sky above the city of Goma, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, was tinted red before dawn on Sunday morning as the Nyiragongo Volcano continued its eruption, sowing panic among city residents and spurring thousands to flee their homes.
“We saw a big red cloud and that is when the panic started. We saw massive movements of people toward the border with Rwanda and to the west of the city,” Tom Peyre-Costa, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s regional spokesman for Central and West Africa, told EFE by telephone from Goma.
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Thousands of residents of east Democratic Republic of Congo return to Goma, after the river of lava from the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano halts (Twitter)
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But the military governor of North Kivu province said the city was spared by a matter of a few hundred yards after the lava halted near Buhene on the outskirts of Goma .
Owners of homes that were caught up in a volcanic eruption paused to take selfies in front of their burning properties in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Congolese fleeing from Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), sleep with their belongings on a street after the Nyiragongo volcano erupted near the border in Gisenyi, Rwanda, on May 23, 2021.PHOTO/ AFP
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People had begun fleeing Goma city even before official confirmation that Nyiragongo had erupted at around 7:00 pm Saturday.
Nyiragongo last erupted on January 17, 2002, killing more than 100 people and covering almost all of the eastern part of Goma with lava, including half of the airport s landing strip.
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A river of red-hot lava stopped Sunday on the edge of Goma, sparing the eastern DR Congo city from disaster after an overnight eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano sent thousands of terrified residents fleeing in panic.
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