Fountains of lava and plumes of ash spewed high above Chile's Llaima volcano.
Southern Chile’s Llaima volcano spewed fire and lava during an eruption that forced authorities to evacuate 150 tourists and residents.
Officials later rescued an additional 54 people who had been stranded overnight after a local river swelled with runoff from melting glaciers on the volcano.
The 10,253-foot (3,125-metre) mountain is located adjacent to the Argentine border, and lava was said to be flowing toward that neighboring country but not down the western slopes.
Plumes of ash blowing into Argentina disrupted air traffic at airports downwind of the volcano on Thursday.
Llaima is one of South America’s most active volcanoes and has recorded 60 eruptions, with the most recent strong one lasting four days in 1994.
The volcano is in the Araucania region of southern Chile, inside Conguillio National Park.
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