9/25/2023 0 Comments Volcano box training![]() Tens of thousands of people fled the eastern city of Goma on Saturday night when lava began to spew from the flanks of nearby Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, throwing up clouds of noxious fumes and filling the sky with an ominous fiery glow.Īfter crossing a major highway, the lava advanced toward Goma, a city of two million people which was devastated by the last eruption, in 2002, when molten lava smothered entire neighborhoods, killed several hundred people and left at least 100,000 homeless. GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo - After a night of chaos and panic, the threat from an erupting volcano to a major city in Congo appeared to recede on Sunday when a river of molten lava halted at the city’s northern edge.
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