Residents of evacuated city in Iceland allowed to return home
Residents of Grindavik, a small fishing town in Iceland that was evacuated more than a month ago, have been allowed to return home. This happened a week after a nearby lava eruption began.
The regional police chief said that residents, business owners and employees could return home and even stay there overnight. According to ABC News, Icelandic scientists said that the eruption has stopped and there is no threat yet.
Icelanders who lived near the volcano were forcibly evicted from their homes on November 10, as tensions around the volcano and earthquakes became more intense.
Residents were allowed to return for 5 minutes to get the necessary things under the supervision of rescuers, and then were advised to flee away from the faults in the ground.
It was on that day that a series of earthquakes caused cracks and holes to appear in the ground between the city and Silingarfell, a small mountain in the north of the Reykjanes Peninsula.
About a week ago, an eruption began in Iceland, but fortunately, it did not harm the city's residents and did not even seriously affect air travel in Europe.
