The video shows how houses are swallowed up by a lava flow

The city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, threatened by a volcanic eruption, appears to have escaped a disaster.

The military governor of North Kivu Province, Konstant Ndima, said on Sunday that lava flow from Nyiragongo volcano had stopped in the outskirts of Goma.

However, lava destroyed some buildings.

The eruption reminds us of the last major volcanic eruption in Nyiragongo in 2002, said a representative of Virunga National Park, where Nyiragongo volcano is located.

More than a hundred people were killed in that time and much of the eastern part of Goma was covered in lava, including half of the runway of Goma Airport.