A thousand people were evacuated and traffic was stopped after the Galeras volcano erupted
in southern Colombia without causing casualties, officials said.The locals were taken to shelters in Pasto, the capital of Narino department on the border with Ecuador, after authorities put the volcano -- the most active in Colombia -- on red alert to signal an imminent or ongoing eruption.
Some 9,000 people live in the vicinity of the volcano, which erupted at 8:37 pm (local time) on Friday, will be forced to leave their homes and seek refuge in temporary accommodations if the alert is prolonged, the Colombia Institute of Geology and Mining (Ingeominas) said yesterday.
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