More than 500 hikers evacuated from Indonesian volcano: officials

TUESDAY, JULY 31, 2018

Mataram, Indonesia - More than 500 hikers and their guides have been successfully evacuated from an Indonesian volcano after a deadly earthquake triggered landslides that trapped them on the mountain, an official said Tuesday.

    "543 hikers have been evacuated -- they arrived last night," national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told AFP.

    "There are now six people left... They are all healthy and safe."//AFP