However they said people have been leaving the shelters in daytime to tend to their farms and livestock inside the danger zone that now extends to nine kilometres (5.6 miles) from the crater. But in the evenings they are here,” she said, adding they easily cross into the danger zone on their motorbikes. A number of residents with homes just inside the declared danger zone were also refusing to leave, Berces said. “There are some people who don’t want to leave but the local governments are forcing evacuations,” he said. The Philippines is part of the Pacific “Ring of Fire” of islands that were formed by volcanic activity.

Source: The Guardian January 25, 2018 08:37 UTC