More Bodies Recovered From Guatemala’s Valcanic Eruption

More bodies are still been recovered by rescue workers as death toll from the eruption of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano rose to 33 on Monday.

The spokesperson for the Guatemala’s disaster management agency, David de Leon disclosed that more bodies are still been recovered from the rubble of villages on the volcano’s southern flank, which bore the brunt of the disaster.

As a result of the increase in the number of people declared missing in the disaster, the authority has stated that their could be increase in the death toll have have initially been put at 25.

According to De Leon, the numbers of people affected by volcanic eruption that shot a dense cloud of ash into the sky and senta hail of fiery rock fragments and scalded mud down the mountainside, burying homes have been estimated as 1.7 Million.

Fuego has been erupting since 2002, and was continuously active in 2017. There were explosions and ash plumes on May 19-21 as well as a volcanic mudflow on May 17.

The evacuation of some 10,000 people from villages on its slopes had to be done in September 2002, when the last eruption occurred.