Aerial views of first three days of the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma island

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Aerial images from the first three days of the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma show plumes of smoke and flowing lava. The volcano erupted on Sunday in the south of La Palma, one of seven islands that make up the Canary Islands archipelago off the coast of Morocco. Lava has destroyed hundreds of buildings and forced the evacuation of more than 6,100 people.