Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano erupts.

Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano began erupting on Thursday, spewing lava close to several farming villages.

A column of ash and steam shot 1.5 miles (2.5km) above the volcano's crater, volcanologist Silvia Vallejo, of Ecuador's Geophysics Institute, told Radio Sonorama.

On Sunday, 1,000 villagers from 10 hamlets on the western slopes of the 16,400ft (5,000m) volcano, located 80 miles (135km) south east of Quito, were evacuated as a precaution.
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