A string of low-level eruptions at the Philippines’ most active volcano has forced authorities to evacuate nearly 3,000 residents living within a permanent danger zone on its lower slopes, officials said on Wednesday.
The alert level at Mayon Volcano in Albay province was raised to level 3 on the country’s five-step warning system on Tuesday, after monitors recorded intermittent rockfalls, some as large as cars, tumbling from the crater, along with dangerous pyroclastic flows of superheated ash, gas and rocks.
