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Around 16,000 people died when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Both the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii were absolutely destroyed in this catastrophic eruption.

The estimated guess of how many people died in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius is 15,000-20,000 people.

Mt. Vesuvius erupted catastrophically once again in 1631, killed another 6,000 people.
They died from Pyroclastic flow which is a fast-moving current of superheated gas (which can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,830 °F)) and rock (collectively known as tephra), which reaches speeds moving away from a volcano of up to 700 km/h (450 mph). Toxic gasses and suffocation from ash.

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