View from Tambillo, Ecuador, of the Cotopaxi volcano spewing ash on August 21, 2015. Nearly 325,000 people could be affected by an eruption of Cotopaxi, the volcano looming beyond the Ecuadoran capital of Quito, officials said Monday. The biggest risk is from an eruption melting the 5,900-metre (19,000-foot) mountain's snowcap and triggering massive melt-water floods and lahar mudflows that could sweep through nearby towns, Ecuador's minister of risk management Maria del Pilar Cornejo said. (Photo by Martin Bernetti/AFP Photo)
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