Residents of Afar in northeast Ethiopia, about 800 kilometres from Addis Ababa, were engulfed in ashfall after the Hayli Gubbi volcano erupted — the first time in nearly 12,000 years.
A local reporter told the Nation that residents were struggling to breathe because of the ash plume and some were fleeing their homes.
“It took everyone by surprise.
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