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Gallery: Streets covered in ash as volcanoes continue to 'belch' in southern Chile
Volcanic ash has spread as far a Argentina where it has dropped on the streets of a holiday resort.
VOLCANOES IN SOUTHERN Chile are continuing to erupt with wind carrying their ash across the Andes and dropping it on Argentina.
BBC News reports that the ash clouds are being “belched out” by the Puyehue-Cordon-Caulle volcano range which erupted for the first time in half a century over the weekend.
A combination of ash and sulphur began to spew on Saturday with columns of smoke stretching high into the air.
The wind carried the ash over the Andes mountains, dropping “like a grey blanket” on the Argentine resort of Bariloche which was forced to close its airport.
A witness told the BBC that “everything is white” in Bariloche, adding:
The ash is like snow, but thicker, more like sand, so the streets are like a beach.
Authorities have evacuated about 3,500 Chilean people in the local area according to Press Association, which has published some incredible photos of lightning strikes above some of the volcanoes:
Chilean Volcanic Eruption
Chilean Volcanic Eruption
Chilean Volcanic Eruption
Chilean Volcanic Eruption
Chilean Volcanic Eruption
Chilean Volcanic Eruption
Chilean Volcanic Eruption
Chilean Volcanic Eruption
Chilean Volcanic Eruption
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