{"id":8304,"date":"2018-06-05T00:49:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T23:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8304"},"modified":"2018-06-05T00:50:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T23:50:16","slug":"25-killed-in-guatemala-volcanic-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/25-killed-in-guatemala-volcanic-eruption\/","title":{"rendered":"25 killed in Guatemala volcanic eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8306\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Guatemala-volcanic.jpg\" alt=\"Guatemala volcanic\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>At least 25 people were killed and hundreds others injured when the Fuego Volcano, located 40 kilometers (25 miles) off the capital Guatemala City, erupted on Monday.<br \/>\nAccording to a BBC report, the volcanic eruption swept ashes, rocks and black smoke into the sky.<br \/>\nThe National Disaster Management Agency (CONRED) said a river of lava had destroyed houses and burnt people inside the village of El Rodeo.<br \/>\nSeveral children and some aid workers were among the dead, the agency said.<br \/>\nThe agency urged residents living near the volcano to evacuate immediately.<br \/>\nAccording to a CNN report, CONRED Director Sergio Garcia Cabanas said around 1.7 million people had been affected by the eruption.<br \/>\nOver 3,100 people have evacuated from the area, Cabanas said, adding that search-and-rescue efforts were ongoing.<br \/>\nGuatemalan President Jimmy Morales said a national emergency response had been launched, adding: \u201cWe think that there could be a state of devastation in at least three areas,\u201d according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/25-killed-in-guatemala-volcanic-eruption\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 25 people were killed and hundreds others injured when the Fuego Volcano, located 40 kilometers (25 miles) off the capital Guatemala City, erupted on Monday. According to a BBC report, the volcanic eruption swept ashes, rocks and black smoke into the sky. The National Disaster Management Agency (CONRED) said a river of lava &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8307,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions\/8307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}