The effusive eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which has lasted for two months on the Spanish island of La Palma, had not yet claimed any victims.

But the lava flows and gas emissions had forced the authorities to close part of the territory of the island, and it was in this area that a body was found on Saturday morning.

The Civil Guard did not give details of the victim's identity, the circumstances of his death and the discovery of his body, or the reason why the man was in El Paso. Access to the place had however been occasionally authorized in order to allow residents to recover personal effects, added the civil guard. Miguel Angel Morcuende, the technical director of the Volcanic Emergency Plan of the Canaries, explained that he was "awaiting the autopsy", the date of the results of which is not yet known.

The lava flows from the Cumbre Vieja volcano have already devastated 1,018 hectares and washed away several thousand buildings, including houses, and destroyed many crops, including banana plantations.

Several hundred of the 85,000 inhabitants of the island have been evacuated and relocated since the start of this eruption, the third in a century, after that of the San Juan volcano in 1949 and that of Teneguia in 1971.

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