La Palma locals pay All Saints tribute remotely as lava cuts off cemetery


A woman cleans the ash of the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the cemetery of Los Llanos de Aridane on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain October 30, 2021. Picture taken October 30, 2021. REUTERS/Borja Suarez

LA PALMA (Reuters) - Locals on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma lit candles and laid flowers for their loved ones at a makeshift memorial on Monday, after the cemetery where they are buried was cut off by the lava flow from the Cumbre Vieja volcano.

Islanders, unable to visit the graves of family members in the Las Manchas cemetery of Los Angeles, gathered for an emotional tribute at a "memory corner" set up by the local government in the Plaza de Espana in nearby Los Llanos.

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