A huge column of ash shot out of an Ecuadorean Amazon volcano yesterday, making it the sixth showing signs of eruption in the South American country.
No one was hurt and no human settlement endangered by the 40km-high plume of ash belched out by the Sangay volcano, whose crater towers 5200mabove the jungles of Morona Santiago province, scientists said.
Sangay, about 190km from Ecuador's Andean mountain capital Quito, is one of the country's most active volcanoes, and has generated lava flows and explosions since its last full eruption in 1933.
