1,300 Indonesians displaced on volcanic eruption
Jakarta (dpa) - About 1,300 villagers living at the foot of Mount Sinabung in Sumatra have been evacuated after an eruption, the National Disaster Management Agency said Sunday.
Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said four villages situated within three kilometers of the volcano were evacuated.
"Tremors are still occurring and thick black clouds are still being spewed," he said by phone.
Authorities have raised the volcano status to the second-highest level.
Mount Sinabung had been dormant for 400 years before it erupted on August 2010. There are nearly 130 active volcanoes across the Indonesian archipelago.
