![]() “We didn’t believe it, and when we went out the hot mud was already coming down the street.My mother was stuck there, she couldn’t get out,” said Lopez, weeping and holding her face in her hands.ĭisaster agency spokesman David de Leon said 18 bodies had been found in San Miguel Los Lotes. “We were at a party, celebrating the birth of a baby, when one of the neighbors shouted at us to come out and see the lava that was coming,” Lopez recalled. ![]() She still doesn’t know where her mother or her sister are. Hilda Lopez said the volcanic mud swept into her village of San Miguel Los Lotes, just below the mountain’s flanks. Inhaling ash or hot volcanic gases can asphyxiate people quickly. Workers told of finding bodies so thickly coated with ash they appeared to be statues. The charred landscape left behind was still too hot to touch or even to pull bodies from in many parts, melting the shoes of rescuers.
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