Google – AFP, 15 Sep 2013
File
picture shows plume of volcanic ash being emitted by Mount
Sinabung in North
Sumatra, September 16, 2010 (AFP/File, Sutanta Aditya)
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JAKARTA —
Thousands of villagers fled Sunday after a volcano erupted on Indonesia's
Sumatra island spewing rocks and red-hot ash onto surrounding villages,
officials said.
Mount
Sinabung in Karo district, North Sumatra province, erupted violently before
dawn.
"More
than 3,000 people have been evacuated from areas within a three-kilometre
(two-mile) radius of the volcano, and they are all safe," Asren Nasution,
the head of North Sumatra disaster agency, told AFP.
Five halls
normally used for traditional cultural ceremonies had been converted into
shelters for those displaced.
Sutopo
Purwo Nugroho, national disaster agency spokesman, said 3,710 people had so far
been evacuated.
Nugroho
said it was second recent eruption of Sinabung. The volcano was dormant for
nearly 100 years before erupting in August and September 2010, forcing about
12,000 people to flee.
Indonesia
has dozens of active volcanoes and straddles major tectonic fault lines known
as the "Ring of Fire" between the Pacific and Indian oceans.
Last month
five people were killed and hundreds evacuated when a volcano on a tiny island
in East Nusa Tenggara province erupted.
The
country's most active volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, killed more than
350 people in a series of violent eruptions in 2010.
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