Evacuees displaced by the Taal volcano eruption sitting outside their temporary shelter at a government complex used as an evacuation centre in Tagaytay on Saturday (Jan 18). - AFP
MANILA: More than 162,000 residents have been displaced by an erupting volcano in the Philippines as state scientists on Saturday (Jan 18) warned that the threat of a hazardous explosive eruption remained despite an apparent lull in activtity on the surface.
The number of evacuees rose as police stepped up patrols to clear towns located within a 14km-radius danger zone around Taal Volcano in Batangas province, 66km south of Manila.
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