Caribbean volcano erupts for the first time in decades

Residents of the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent on Saturday (April 10) woke to rumbling noises emanating from the La Soufriere volcano that spectacularly erupted a day earlier, while a thin layer of ash coated rooftops, cars and roads. After decades of inactivity, the volcano erupted on Friday (April 9) spewing dark clouds of ash some 10 km (6 miles) into the air and prompting an evacuation of some residents living nearby. A Reuters witness in the island’s capital city of Kingstown said the volcano continued to vent clouds of ash and rumble on Saturday morning, while videos from the island showed a ghost-like landscape, with empty streets and hazy skies.