Highly active volcano erupts on Reunion amid media frenzy

August 02, 2015 00:18

Journalists arriving this week to the Indian Ocean island Reunion to report about the discovery of a jet wing fragment were met with another spectacular sight: the eruption of one of the Earth's most active volcanoes.

As the volcano spewed red-hot lava high up in the air in Reunion's southeastern corner, some excitable reporters thought a large-scale emergency evacuation would take place and that the search for airplane wreckage believed to come from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 would be called off.

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