More than 300 families evacuate in Philippines due to ashfall from volcano

“More than 300 families person been evacuated successful Philippines aft monolithic amounts of ash billowed from the Mayon volcano implicit the play owed to the illness of lava deposits from its slopes,” officials said Monday.

“There was nary explosive eruption from Mayon, which has been erupting mildly connected and disconnected since January, but immense deposits of lava connected its southwestern slope abruptly cascaded down successful a pyroclastic travel — an avalanche of blistery rocks, ash and state — earlier nightfall connected Saturday (May 2, 2026),” Teresito Bacolcol, manager of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, said.