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MANILA, Philippines — A plume of hot ash and gases up to 3 kilometers high forced residents to seek shelter after a volcano in the Philippines erupted on Monday. “It sounded like a cannon,” Mayor Jose Chubasco Cardenas of Canlaon city, which lies southeast of the volcano, told The Associated Press by telephone. “There have been quiet eruptions before, but …
