Villagers Flee Erupting Volcano in Ecuador
Hugo Yepez, director of Ecuador's Geophysical Institute, says no one has been injured nor any village damaged. He says people within 8 miles of the volanco's center were evacuated Saturday as a precaution.
An eruption of ash from Tungurahua last May caused a one-day shutdown of the international airport at Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil. Thousands of people in near the volcano also were evacuated.
The volcano is 95 miles southeast of Quito, the capital. In 2006, an eruption buried entire villages and killed at least four people.




