Volcanic Fumes, Heat Sickening Children
From Times Wire Reports
Women fleeing an erupting volcano on the Pacific island of Ambae said the heat and fumes had made their children ill.
Vanuatu’s Mt. Manaro has been pumping out steam, ash and sulfur gas since Nov. 27, waking from a 10-year slumber. More than half of the island’s 10,000 people have fled to five evacuation centers.
Tribal chiefs went to the 4,920-foot-high crater to toss a boar’s tusk into a lake in an offering to volcano god Tagaro.
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