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A voluntary evacuation of the volcano-ravaged Caribbean island of Montserrat begins Wednesday.
Clare Short, Britain’s international development secretary, told BBC Radio in London on Tuesday that “people will be helped to go to Antigua, . . . looked after, fed and housed and then given choices about their longer-term decisions.”
Those fleeing the Soufriere Hills volcano at the south end of the British colony will be given the choice of settling elsewhere in the Caribbean or in Britain.
Eruptions in June killed at least 19 people. This month, the capital, Plymouth, was virtually destroyed.
