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Environment

Death toll climbs to 99 in Guatemala volcano eruption

FILE PHOTO: Soldiers search for remains at an area affected by the eruption of the Fuego volcano at El Rodeo in Escuintla, Guatemala June 6, 2018. REUTERS/Fabricio Alonzo

EL RODEO, GUATEMALA (Reuters) - The death toll from a massive volcano eruption in Guatemala rose to 99 on Wednesday, the Central American country's disaster and forensic agency Inacif said.

The disaster on Sunday was the volcano's biggest eruption in four decades.

(Reporting by Sofia Menchu; writing by Julia Love; editing by Daina Beth Solomon)

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