Yogyakarta. The refugees at the Glagahardjo shelter in Sleman, Yogyakarta, were evacuated after Mount Merapi erupted again on Monday morning.
There was some difficulty in the evacuation, however, because most of the women initially refused to leave. They were waiting for their husbands to return from feeding the cattle left at their homes located near the volcano’s crater.
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Indonesia’s most active volcano which claimed at least 36 lives last week has spewed more searing clouds of gas and ash, triggering fresh panic among locals.
Azis, an official at the volcanology office in the central Java city of Yogyakarta, said that “heat clouds and ash are streaming down from the mouth of Mount Merapi” yesterday afternoon.
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Video Report: Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano in Sunda Strait, straddling East Java and Sumatra, has spewed ash and flaming rocks. Krakatoa erupted and blew apart in 1883 sending tsunamis as high as 151ft crashing into local islands and some which rocked boats as far away as Africa. Global temperatures dropped by 1.2 degrees C. until Sulphur in the atmosphere had precipitated.
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