Evacuation begins as volcano growls
Chile and Argentina are evacuating nearly 3,000 people after officials issued a red alert for the increasingly active Copahue volcano bordering the two countries.
Chilean officials began evacuating 2,240 people within a 25 kilometre (15.5 mile) radius of the volcano on Tuesday morning.
Argentinian officials began evacuating about 600 people on their side of the border on Monday night.
The nearly 10,000 foot (2,965 metre) Copahue sits in the Andes cordillera, between Chile's Bio Bio region and Argentina's Neuquen province.
Bio Bio governor Victor Lobos said the people living in the foothills of the volcano own about 21,000 head of cattle.
He told local Radio Cooperativa that some of them are refusing to leave the area because they do not want to leave their animals behind.