JAKARTA (Reuters) - Several airports resumed operations on the heavily populated Indonesian island of Java on Saturday, a day after they were forced to close due to a volcanic eruption that sent a 17 kilometre (10 mile) ash cloud into the air.
More than 56,000 people were forced to flee their homes and four people were killed when Mount Kelud erupted late on Thursday in East Java province, coating cities and airports as far as 500 kilometres away in a layer of ash and stranding thousands of passengers.
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