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Images Show Rescuers Reaching Fatalities In Fast-Moving Ash Cloud of Guatemala Volcano

6:33 PM PDT on June 4, 2018

At least 65 people are dead and nearly 2 million are displaced in the most violent eruption of a volcano in Guatemala in decades. The Sunday eruption of the Volcán de Fuego in southwestern Guatemala caught authorities off-guard and online critics have called out the Guatemalan government for not responding forcefully enough to the eruption.

On Monday images emerged of the rescue operations. One clip shows uniformed officials pulling ash-caked bodies from the gray landscape. At one point, a rescuer is seen lifting a child and crying: "Bring the car because this one is warm!"

Warning, the images below are intense: