LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Spain( AP)--A volcano on Spain's Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma erupted

MADRID — A volcano on Spain’s Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma erupted Sunday after a weeklong

coast.... The volcano on Spain’s Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma erupted Sunday after a weeklong

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The immediate area had been evacuated for several days as authorities waited for the lava that began erupting Sept.... The meeting of molten rock and sea water finally came at 11 p.m.on Tuesday.... By daybreak, a widening promontory of newborn land could be seen forming under plumes of steam rising high into the area....

kilometers( four miles) to the island's edge.... On the way down from the Cumbre Vieja volcanic ridge, the lava flows have engulfed at least 656 buildings, mostly homes and farm buildings, in its unstoppable march to the sea. The meeting of molten rock and sea water finally came at 11 p.m.on Tuesday.... Torres cited one village, Todoque, home to 1, 400 people, which was wiped out.La Palma, home to about 85, 000 people, is part of the volcanic Canary Islands, an archipelago off northwest Africa

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