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6. What caused it to erupt?

  • Nobody knows
  • Fissures opened up to the side creating 3 streams of lava which reached up to 60km/h
  • An earthquake disrupted it

7. How many people were killed when fuel exploded?

  • 55
  • 49
  • 50
  • 60

8. How many villages were destroyed in the lava flow?

  • 10
  • 14
  • 12
  • 15

9. Why did cholera spread?

  • It didn't
  • Lack of sanitation
  • Lots of dead bodies

10. Why where the aid agencies restricted?

  • The lave flow
  • Ash
  • Rubble