Volcano shuts Chilean town for three months

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 14:56 in Earth & Climate

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's town of Chaiten, until recently home to 4,500 people, will be shut for three months until it is no longer endangered by a cloud of hot ash from an erupting volcano, the government said on Wednesday.

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