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Lava flow on La Palma (archive image)
Photo: ALBERTO DI LOLLI / imago images / El Mundo
A new lava flow has destroyed other houses on the volcanic island of La Palma, which belongs to Spain.
The state TV broadcaster RTVE quoted the head of the local Pevolca emergency committee, Miguel Ángel Morcuende, as saying that it was a "significant number" of residential buildings.
He did not give exact numbers.
The lava, which is more than 1000 degrees Celsius, is fed from a new crevice on the Cumbre Vieja and flows towards the coast on the southern edge of the lava field, which is already 1155 hectares in size.
The lava flow appeared last Saturday, but the affected area had been evacuated for a long time.
The earthquake activity has meanwhile decreased somewhat, it is said.
On Monday, around 20 lighter tremors at depths of around 14 kilometers were registered by noon.
842 million euros in damage
The volcanic eruption on the Atlantic island off the west coast of Africa, which began more than eleven weeks ago, has caused more than 842 million euros in damage so far, according to estimates by the regional government.
Almost 2,800 buildings were destroyed and about 100 others were badly damaged, RTVE reported on Sunday.
7,000 people had to leave their homes weeks ago, schools, churches, supermarkets as well as numerous roads, power lines, irrigation systems and banana plantations were destroyed.
A person was killed.
Volcanologists emphasized that the end of the eruption was not in sight.
ptz / dpa
