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 At least 192 people are missing and 75 are dead as a result of the explosion of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala on Sunday, officials say. 
 
 Villages on the slopes were buried in volcanic ash and mud. 
 
 Rescue work on Tuesday was disrupted when a new eruption sent hot gas and molten rock streaming down the volcano's south side. 
 
 More than 1.7 million people have been affected by Sunday's eruption, with more than 3,000 evacuated. 
 
 Tuesday's explosion took many by surprise after volcanologists said the eruption, which had sent ash up to 10km (33,000ft) into the sky on Sunday, was over for the near future. 
 
 Eddy Sanchez, the head of Guatemala's National Institute of Seismology, had predicted "no imminent eruption over the next few days". 
 
 A village wiped off the map 
 
 Will Grant, BBC News, El Rodeo, Guatemala 
 
 Boris Rodriguez has no-one to turn to now. He lost more loved ones in a single night on Sunday than many do in a lifetime. 
 
 Mr Rodriguez's wife, both of her parents, his brother and sister-in-law and their children died when the Fuego volcano erupted. 
 
 "I saw the children's bodies," he told me between sobs. "They were huddled together in the bed, like they were trying to hide from what was happening." 
 
 If Mr Rodriguez, who is 25, were a solitary case, it would be heartbreaking enough. But most of his neighbours in the village of El Rodeo have similar stories of grief. The village was almost entirely wiped off the map. 
 
 Chaos and hope: More on-the-ground accounts 
 
 Image copyright AFP Image caption Volunteers and rescuers evacuate the disaster zone during the latest eruption 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Journalists run during the second blast 
 
 Why were so many people killed in the initial eruption? 
 
 Almost 200 people remain unaccounted for, said AFP news agency, quoting Guatemala's Disaster Relief Agency. 
 
 No evacuation alert was issued before the volcano erupted on Sunday, said the agency's chief, Sergio Cabañas. 
 
 He added that local residents had received training in emergency procedures but were not able to implement them because the initial volcanic activity happened too fast. 
 
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 Sunday's blast generated pyroclastic flows - fast-moving mixtures of very hot gas and volcanic matter - which descended down the slopes, engulfing communities including El Rodeo and San Miguel Los Lotes. 
 
 Volcanologist Dr Janine Krippner told the BBC that people should not underestimate the risk from pyroclastic flows and volcanic mudflows, known as lahars. 
 
 "Fuego is a very active volcano. It has deposited quite a bit of loose volcanic material and it is also in a rain-heavy area, so when heavy rains hit the volcano that is going to be washing the deposits away into these mudflows which carry a lot of debris and rock. 
 
 "They are extremely dangerous and deadly as well." 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Faye Dunstan describes the day the Fuego volcano erupted 
 
 Deadly flow, as fast as a jet plane 
 
 By Paul Rincon, science editor, BBC News website 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption Thousands have left their homes since the eruption 
 
 A pyroclastic flow is a fast-moving mixture of gas and volcanic material, such as pumice and ash. Such flows are a common outcome of explosive volcanic eruptions, like the Fuego event, and are extremely dangerous to populations living downrange. 
 
 Just why they are so threatening can be seen from some of the eyewitness videos on YouTube of the Guatemalan eruption. In one, people stand on a bridge filming the ominous mass of gas and volcanic debris as it expands from Fuego. 
 
 Some bystanders only realise how fast it is travelling as the flow is almost upon them. 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Video shows Guatemala's most violent volcano eruption in more than a century 
 
 The speed it travels depends on several factors, such as the output rate of the volcano and the gradient of its slope. But they have been known to reach speeds of up to 700km/h - close to the cruising speed of a long-distance commercial passenger aircraft. 
 
 In addition, the gas and rock within a flow are heated to extreme temperatures, ranging between 200C and 700C. If you're directly in its path, there is little chance of escape. 
 
 The eruption of Vesuvius, in Italy, in 79 AD produced a powerful pyroclastic flow, burying the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under a thick blanket of ash. 
 
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 Rescue workers run for cover as the Volcan de Fuego, or "Volcano of Fire," blows more clouds of ash in the El Rodeo hamlet of Escuintla, Guatemala, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. The fiery volcanic eruption on Sunday in south-central Guatemala killed scores as rescuers struggled to reach people where homes... (Associated Press) 
 
 ESCUINTLA, Guatemala (AP) — Lilian Hernandez wept as she spoke the names of aunts, uncles, cousins, her grandmother and two great-grandchildren — 36 family members in all — missing and presumed dead in the explosion of Guatemala's Volcano of Fire. 
 
 "My cousins Ingrid, Yomira, Paola, Jennifer, Michael, Andrea and Silvia, who was just 2-years-old," the distraught woman said — a litany that brought into sharp relief the scope of a disaster for which the final death toll is far from clear. 
 
 What was once a collection of verdant canyons, hillsides and farms resembled a moonscape of ash, rock and debris on Tuesday in the aftermath of the fast-moving avalanche of super-heated muck that roared into the tightly knit villages on the mountain's flanks, devastating entire families. 
 
 Two days after the eruption, the terrain was still too hot in many places for rescue crews to search for bodies or — increasingly unlikely with each passing day — survivors. 
 
 By afternoon a new column of smoke was rising from the mountain and Guatemala's disaster agency said volcanic material was descending its south side, prompting an evacuation order and the closure of a nearby national highway. Rescuers, police and journalists hurried to leave the area as a siren wailed and loudspeakers blared, "Evacuate!" 
 
 The new evacuation order set off a panic even in areas that were not under it. Dozens of people could be seen walking down roadsides carrying children or a few belongings beside paralyzed traffic in parts of Escuintla township south of the volcano. 
 
 A lucky few, like retiree Pantaleon Garcia, was able to load his grandchildren into the back of a pickup with a jug of water and some food, to go to stay with relatives in another town. 
 
 "You have to be prepared, for the children," he said. 
 
 Even in more distant central Escuintla, which hosts most of the shelters for those evacuated from other areas, businesses were closed as people left. 
 
 On Sunday, when the volcano exploded in a massive cloud of ash and molten rock, Hernandez said her brother and sister ran to check on their 70-year-old grandmother on the family's plot of land in the village of San Miguel Los Lotes. 
 
 "She said that it was God's will, she was not going to flee," Hernandez said. "She was unable to walk. It was hard for her to get around." 
 
 Her brother and sister made it to safety, but their grandmother has not been seen again. 
 
 Hernandez and her husband, Francisco Ortiz, survived because they moved out of Los Lotes just two months ago to begin a new life on a small plot of land. 
 
 The couple has been staying at a Mormon church in the nearby city of Escuintla and going to a morgue there to await news. So far only the body of one relative, her 28-year-old cousin, Cesar Gudiel Escalante, has been recovered and identified. 
 
 "The people ended up buried in nearly 3 meters of lava," Ortiz said. "Nobody is left there." 
 
 Other families experienced similar tragedies. 
 
 As President Jimmy Morales toured the area and met with survivors on Monday, a woman begged him to help her loved ones in Los Lotes. 
 
 "Mr. President, my family is missing. Send a helicopter to throw water over them because they are burning," she said. "I have three children, a grandchild, and all my brothers, my mother, all my family are there. ... More than 20 have disappeared." 
 
 The fast-moving flows with temperatures as high as 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit (700 Celsius) and hot ash and volcanic gases that can cause rapid asphyxiation caught many off guard. 
 
 On Tuesday, it was clear that the official death toll was sure to climb and fears spread that anyone still stuck in the buried houses was dead and would remain entombed there. 
 
 Guatemala's National Institute of Forensic Sciences raised the death toll Tuesday evening to 75. The institute said that 23 of those recovered bodies had been identified. 
 
 Sergio Cabanas, director of the disaster agency, said Tuesday night at a news conference that 192 people were listed as missing. He said it was not immediately clear if some of those could be among the unidentified bodies. 
 
 Officials are crossing-checking census data with aerial photos of homes, registers of people in shelters and lists of the missing and injured, Cabanas said. The only thing they did not yet have was information on the unidentified bodies, but would be adding that as it became available, he said. 
 
 At a roadblock, Joel Gonzalez complained that police wouldn't let him through to see his family's house in the village of San Juan Alotenango, where his 76-year-old father lay buried in ash along with four other relatives. 
 
 "They say they are going to leave them buried there, and we are not going to know if it's really them," the 39-year-old farmer said. "They are taking away our opportunity to say goodbye." 
 
 A spokesman for Guatemala's firefighters said that once it reaches 72 hours after the eruption, there will be little chance of finding anyone alive. 
 
 "We don't rule out the possibility of some person alive, but the condition in which the homes are makes that possibility pretty unlikely," said the spokesman, Julio Sanchez, adding that some of the ash was still at temperatures between 750 and 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit (400 and 700 degrees Celsius). 
 
 In the devastated town of El Rodeo, gray soot coated trees and homes and an ash-covered deer lay dead in the debris. Rescuers wearing hard hats, masks and goggles used shovels to dig through homes, unearthing at least one body burned beyond recognition. 
 
 Amid the destruction, there was one glimmer of hope: The rescue of a black-and-white dog found alive in a home where four people lay dead. 
 
 "He is called Rambo," said volunteer firefighter Sergio Vazquez, who carried the dog on his shoulders to safety. "It may be that this dog no longer has a family." 
 
 Vazquez had no explanation for how the dog survived while the people died. 
 
 Sanchez, the Conred spokesman, said many dogs and cats had been rescued with burns on their paws from the mud and ash, some blinded from the volcanic gases. 
 
 "Animals have a different sort of resistance ... and different behavior when it comes to finding refuge," Sanchez said. 
 
 Only 17 of the bodies recovered so far have been identified due to the extreme heat that charred their features and burned off fingerprints, and authorities hope other means such as DNA testing can help. 
 
 Authorities say at least 46 people were injured in the eruption, and 12 shelters were housing 1,877 people. 
 
 The Guatemalan military said a U.S. Air Force plane was flying in Tuesday to take about a half-dozen children who suffered burns for treatment in Galveston, Texas. 
 
 Lacking electricity in the hardest hit areas, emergency crews were carrying out rescue efforts during daylight hours and calling them off for safety reasons when darkness fell. 
 
 As dawn broke Tuesday, the volcano continued to rattle with what Guatemala's Volcanology Institute said were eight to 10 moderate eruptions per hour — vastly less intense than Sunday's big blasts. 
 
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 Associated Press writer Sonia Perez D. reported this story in Escuintla and AP writer Mark Stevenson reported from El Rodeo. ||||| El Rodeo, Guatemala (CNN) Ovidio García Suárez was born and raised in the shadow of Guatemala's Fuego volcano. He has lived through plenty of volcanic activity in his 64 years, he says -- but nothing like this. 
 
 On Sunday, Fuego unleashed a fast-moving mix of ash, rock and volcanic gases that virtually swallowed San Miguel Los Lotes, the neighborhood in El Rodeo where García lives, transforming the landscape into a gray wasteland. 
 
 Homes are buried in ash, some of it still hot to the touch. Leaden clothes hang on clotheslines. An eery silence hangs in the air, apart from the presence of chickens that somehow managed to survive the explosion. 
 
 Volcanic rocks the size of baseballs and larger litter the ground. Melted car tires lay in puddles of rubber and twisted steel. 
 
 At least 99 have died from Fuego's fury, and 192 are missing -- including García's wife. 
 
 García was away from his home when Fuego exploded and his daughter called him. "Mom disappeared," she told him. His son's wife was in the home, too, and they don't know where she is, either. Their home was destroyed. 
 
 "Now there is nothing," he says. "What's the government going to do?" 
 
 'It's dangerous, but we go anyway' 
 
 At least 192 people are missing, Guatemala's disaster relief agency said, and rescuers face hazardous conditions as they navigate hot, rocky debris. And Fuego might not be done yet. It expelled more rock and gas Tuesday, sending ash over 16,000 feet into the sky and temporarily halting search operations. 
 
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 More pyroclastic flow -- the name for the nasty mix of ash, rock and volcanic gases -- is possible in coming days, the country's disaster relief agency said. 
 
 Despite the circumstances, firefighter Rigoberto Ramirez remained hopeful that more survivors will be found in El Rodeo. Near El Rodeo, searchers found signs of rushed attempts at flight. A red truck full of possessions, including a refrigerator, rests abandoned, its tires melted to the ground. 
 
 An abandoned car rests atop debris Wednesday in El Rodeo, Guatemala, after the volcano's eruption. 
 
 Smoke rose from the volcano Wednesday morning, and Ramirez's colleagues parked their vehicles facing downhill in case Fuego erupted again and they had to make a quick exit. 
 
 "There's hope," he said. "But it's dangerous for us to go up there. Water has been trapped under the ash and vapors could come out any time." 
 
 "It's dangerous, but we go anyway." 
 
 Rescue workers search Tuesday in El Rodeo. 
 
 'We were covered in ashes' 
 
 The eruption of Volcan de Fuego, which means fire volcano, was visible from space; satellite footage showed a massive, dark gray ash cloud. More than 12,000 people have been evacuated. 
 
 Near San Miguel Los Lotes, Miriam Juarez and her husband, Jose Amigar, waited Wednesday near a cordoned area, hoping authorities would let them pass so they could retrieve some belongings. 
 
 They said they ran Sunday after one of their children urged them to flee. By the time they reached a shelter in the city of Escuintla, "we were covered in ashes," Juarez said. 
 
 "It was this dark smoke, very dark and it just got bigger," Juarez recalled. 
 
 The couple is staying with their four children at the shelter. Frustration was building Wednesday as officials still wouldn't let the couple go near their home of more than 25 years. 
 
 Miriam Juarez 
 
 "It's our house ... and they won't let us up there," Amigar said, with tears in his eyes. "They say it's for our safety, but they never cared when we lived there." 
 
 Others anxiously await news of their loved ones. Eva Ascón -- from Guatemala City, some 25 miles away the volcano -- seemed to accept that her relatives who lived near the eruption did not survive. 
 
 Ascón told reporters Tuesday she would ask rescue workers to "give us time to identify the bodies in the morgue; don't take them away as unidentified." 
 
 "Even if there are only small bones of my people, I want them," she said. "I don't have even one member of my family." 
 
 Injured children to be treated in the US 
 
 Twelve people severely wounded since the eruption will receive medical attention in the United States and Mexico, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales said. 
 
 Six children will be treated for severe burns at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston, Texas, the hospital said. 
 
 The children will fly to Texas aboard a US Air Force plane by late Wednesday, Guatemalan and hospital officials said. 
 
 An emergency medical team from the hospital has been treating the injured on the ground after being deployed Monday to Guatemala, it said. 
 
 Six other patients will be transferred to Mexico, Morales said.
– At least 75 people are now confirmed dead in the eruption of Guatemala's "Volcano of Fire" and authorities fear the true death toll could be in the hundreds. At least 192 people are missing and one village, El Rodeo, has been almost completely wiped off the map by a river of lava, the BBC reports. Rescue work was badly disrupted Tuesday when strong explosions sent fresh ash, rock, and gases streaming down the Fuego volcano, which is around 25 miles away from Guatemala City, reports CNN. Authorities say only 23 victims have been identified so far, including two young girls, ages 3 and 6. Around 3,000 people have been evacuated and the US Air Force is taking six badly burned children to Texas for treatment. In the village of Escuintla, survivor Lilian Hernandez listed no fewer than 36 missing family members, the AP reports. "My cousins Ingrid, Yomira, Paola, Jennifer, Michael, Andrea, and Silvia, who was just 2 years old," the distraught woman said. In El Rodeo, rescuers dug through ash-covered homes and found one sign of life: A dog that somehow survived in a home where four people died. "Animals have a different sort of resistance ... and different behavior when it comes to finding refuge," says Julio Sanchez, a spokesman for the country's disaster agency.