Mount Nyamulagira erupts in DR Congo - in pictures

The Nyamulagira volcano
Photograph: Cai Tjeenk Willink/ Virguna National Park

A soldier stands guard at Mount Nyamulagira Photograph: Cai Tjeenk Willink/AP

Five days after the Nyamulagira volcano in Virunga national park began erupting, warden Emmanuel de Merode, tourism director Cai Tjeenk Willink and volcanologist Dario Tedesco hiked to the site and set up a camp for a new overnight tourist trek
Photograph: Cai Tjeenk Willink/ Virguna National Park

The eruption appears to be on a lower section of the volcano, or in a separate caldera, with lava flowing north into a non-populated section of the park Photograph: Luanne Cadd/AFP/Getty Images

Virunga national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is inviting tourists on an overnight trek to view a spectacular eruption of Mount Nyamulagira, where rivers of incandescent lava are flowing slowly north into an uninhabited part of the park but pose no danger to its critically endangered mountain gorillas Photograph: Cai Tjeenk Willink/AP