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…showed last 75 words of 473 total…violent explosions were frequent and violent. The final height of the scoria cone was four hundred and twenty-four meters. No one was killed by the lava or ash, but three people were killed by lightning associated with the eruption. It destroyed the villages of Paricutin, San Juan Parangaricutiru, leaving only a church tower, and also damaged nine other villages. Along with destroying the villages, it destroyed twenty-five square kilometers of farmland and forests into wasteland.