Residents displaced as volcano spews lava

No place to call home: People living near Mayon volcano in Daraga, Albay province, moving to an evacuation centre. Thousands of villagers have been forced to leave rural communities within a 6km radius of Mayon volcano’s crater. — AP

At least 14,000 people evacuated from around a volcano spewing lava and noxious gases in the central Philippines may remain displaced from their homes for months, authorities warned.

Incandescent lava was seen flowing slowly from the mouth of the 2,462m Mayon volcano, which was placed on a high alert level last week following seismic tremors and hundreds of rockfall events.