MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate from their homes near a Philippine volcano Saturday after an eruption sent ash and steam hundreds of meters into the sky.
Taal volcano, which sits in a lake south of Manila, exploded with a ‘short-lived’ burst at 7:22 a.m. (2322 GMT), the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said in a statement.
It warned further eruptions were