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Indonesia’s most volatile volcano erupts again

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By PTI Updated: May 21, 2018 6:06 pm

Yogyakarta, May 21 (PTI/AP): Indonesia’s most volatile volcano has spewed smoke and ash in the latest of several eruptions in less than two weeks.

Disaster mitigation agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said Mount Merapi on the main island of Java erupted twice early Monday. A column of volcanic material rose up to 1,200 meters into the air and ash fell in several villages.

The alert level of the volcano was not raised.

An eruption of Merapi on May 11 sent nearby residents fleeing to safer areas.

The 2,968-meter mountain is the most active of 500 Indonesian volcanoes. Its last major eruption in 2010 killed 347 people.

 

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By PTI Updated: May 21, 2018 6:06:57 pm
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