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AP PHOTOS: Only ash and shells of homes left on volcano isle

by Aaron Favila
| January 10, 2021 11:06 PM

TAAL VOLCANO, Philippines (AP) — The island is a ghost town, its trees just dead sticks in a gray landscape, its homes and school ash-covered and damaged by continuing earthquakes and the explosive volcanic eruption that occurred one year ago.

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