JAKARTA - Thousands of residents in Indonesia’s East Java were on high alert on Monday after a violent eruption at the island’s tallest volcano...
JAKARTA - Thousands of residents in Indonesia’s East Java were on high alert on Monday after aprompted authorities to impose an 8km no-go zone and forced evacuations of entire villages.
The provincial search and rescue agency deployed teams to the worst-affected areas near Mount Semeru to assess damage, with low rainfall giving some reprieve, Mr Tholib Vatelehan, a National Search and Rescue Agency spokesman said. “Yesterday, the rainfall level was high, causing all the material from the top of the mountain to come down. But today, so far, there’s no rain, so its relatively safe,” he said.The 3,676m volcano erupted at 2.46pm local time on Sunday. Footage shot by local residents showed Mount Semeru spewing a giant cloud of grey ash high above its crater, which later engulfed the mountain and surrounding rice paddy fields, roads and bridges, and turned the sky black.
People fled the eruption on motorcycles, with almost 2,500 people forced to evacuate, authorities said.
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