World IN BRIEF : PHILIPPINES : Eruptions Continue; 6,000 Told to Flee
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The killer volcano Mayon rumbled and belched ash, and officials ordered 6,000 more people out of villages near its slopes. About 2,800 miles to the southeast, another volcano erupted in the Solomon Islands, forcing the evacuation of more than 300 people. The evacuees in the Philippines will join about 57,000 people already living in 52 emergency shelters in the Legazpi area.
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