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🗓️ 27 June 2023
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In September 2021, a volcano erupted on the Spanish Canary Island. It lasted nearly three months.
Red hot lava spilled out and destroyed homes, businesses and everything in its path before reaching the sea 10 days later. It split the island in half.
Eighteen months on, we travel back to La Palma to see how the islanders are rebuilding their livelihoods and infrastructure.
Presented and produced by Ashish Sharma.
(Image:Karin Bansberg watering plants outside her temporary wooden home. Credit: BBC)
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| 0:41.4 | house. On 19 September 2021 people had mainly finished lunched when a volcano erupted on the island of La Palma, |
| 0:52.5 | one of the Spanish Canary Islands. |
| 0:54.8 | The eruption in Cumbria Bjeke lasted nearly three months until the 25th of December |
| 0:59.5 | and spewed out red-hot lava that destroyed everything in its path |
| 1:03.5 | before reaching the sea 10 days later. |
| 1:06.4 | It splits one side of La Palma in the south from the rest of the island, |
| 1:10.5 | destroying more than a thousand homes and south from the rest of the island, destroying more than |
| 1:11.4 | a thousand homes and businesses. |
| 1:13.6 | The noise of the volcano was like a vibration. |
| 1:17.7 | It was not noise at all. |
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