Village swept by lava

Press, 11 April 1977, Page 6

Village swept by lava

NZPA Saint Dems, Reunion Lava streaming from Piton i de la Fournaise volcano in i I south-eastern Reunion Island ' swept through Sainte Rose Village early on Easter Day. j ’ destroying 11 houses. No casualties were reported. The village was evacuated on Saturday after a fissure, the second in two! days, opened up in the 2631 i metre (7900 ft) mountain to let out a swathe of lava 100 metres wide. The lava poured into the sea at 2.30 yesterday morning after passing through . Sainte Rose. Bois Blanc Village, further _ down the coast, was evacI uated on Friday night as * fast-moving lava from the I first split in the. volcano , ■ rushed threateningly through I a forest, to halt in a ravine only 500 metres from the I deserted village. La Fournaise began spewling out lava on the tiny Tn-’ d'.an Ocean island six days ago. It was last seriously ac- | tive in 1960.

1 Crash 'faked' Photographs of the veI hides allegedly in the car crash which killed Archbishop Luwum and two Cabinet ministers in Uganda show the accident was faked, a London police accident investigator has said. “The two vehicles could not ” possibly have been in the same crash because of the nature of the damage." wrote Sergeant Mike Davies in the weekly “Police Review.’’ The three men were said to be under arrest at the time for plotting against President Idi Amin. — London.