Jakarta Globe – AFP, December 31, 2013
A villager walks under heavy ashfall after a fresh eruption of Mount Sinabung volcano covered Karo district on Sept. 17, 2013. (AFP Photo/Kharisma Tarigan) |
More than
19,000 people have been displaced by a volcano in Indonesia that has been
erupting for months and shot lava into the air nine times overnight, an
official said Tuesday.
Mount
Sinabung on the western island of Sumatra sent hot rocks and ash 7,000 meters
(23,000 feet) in the air Monday night and Tuesday morning, National Disaster
Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.
“Mount
Sinabung remains on the highest alert level and we have warned there should be
no human activity within a five-kilometer (three-mile) radius of the crater,”
Sutopo said.
“On Monday
night, 19,126 people had fled their homes, and we expect that number to rise,”
he said.
Police and
soldiers were patrolling the danger zone to evacuate people who have chosen to
stay in their homes, Nugroho said.
Mount
Sinabung — one of dozens of active volcanoes in Indonesia which straddles major
tectonic fault lines, known as the Ring of Fire — erupted in September for the
first time since 2010 and has been rumbling ever since.
In August,
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.
Agence France-Presse
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Mount
Sinabung spews hot lava as seen from the Suka
Ndebi village in Karo, North
Sumatra, Indonesia on Jan. 5,
2014. (EPA Photo)
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