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For the second time in four weeks, a volcano has erupted in Iceland, with lava this time reaching a coastal town and setting houses on fire on Sunday. In the fifth eruption in the island’s south-west since 2021, lava was spewing from both the volcano and newly opened fissures in the ground, prompting the evacuation of the coastal town of Grindavík. An aerial photo from Icelandic broadcaster RÚV showed lava setting homes on fire in the town where some 4,000 inhabitants had been told to evacuate on Saturday night after a series of earthquakes warned that an eruption was imminent. “Today is a dar…