Hundreds evacuated as new lava stream threatens homes on La Palma

The volcanic eruption is threatening more homes (Daniel Roca/AP)

Hundreds of people on La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands have been evacuated after a new lava stream from an erupting volcano threatened to engulf another neighbourhood on its way towards the Atlantic Ocean.

Island authorities ordered the evacuation of around 800 people from a section of the coastal town of Los Llanos de Aridane on Tuesday after the lava took a new course and put their homes in its probable path of destruction.