“We are waiting to learn more so that we can express ourselves with certainty on the causes of death,” said the technical director of the Canary Islands Volcanic Emergency Plan (Pevolca).
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A man was found dead, Saturday, November 13 in the morning, in the security perimeter set up because of the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma. The eruption, underway for nearly two months, had so far caused no deaths. But the lava flows and gas emissions had forced the authorities to close part of the island’s territory.
It is in this area that the body of a man was found, in the town of El Paso, said the Guardia Civil, without giving further details on the identity of the victim, the circumstances of his death or of the discovery of his body.
Access to the place had been occasionally authorized in order to allow residents to recover personal effects, added the authorities. “We are waiting to learn more to be able to express ourselves with certainty on the causes of death”, also said the technical director of the Volcanic Emergency Plan of the Canaries (Pevolca). He added that the authorities remained “pending autopsy”, for which the date of the results was not yet known.
Lava flows from the Cumbre Vieja volcano have already devastated 1,018 hectares and washed away several thousand buildings, including houses, and destroyed many crops, including banana plantations. Several hundred of the 85,000 inhabitants of the island have been evacuated and relocated since the start of this eruption, the third in a century, after that of the San Juan volcano in 1949 and that of Teneguia in 1971.