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Goma city 'spared' as river of lava from DRC volcano halts

Residents began to warily return home despite repeated seismic shocks as the death toll rose to 15, most of whom were not killed directly by the eruption.

This general view of the distant volcano was taken from Tchegera Island outside Goma on Lake Kivu in eastern DR Congo.
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

A river of red-hot lava stopped Sunday on the edge of Goma, sparing the eastern DR Congo city from disaster after an overnight eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano sent thousands

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