Mt Merapi erupts, spewing ash 6km high


MOUNT Merapi, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted twice, sending clouds of grey ash 6,000m into the sky, Indonesia’s geological agency said.

The two eruptions yesterday lasted around seven minutes, according to the agency, and prompted local authorities to order residents to stay outside a three-kilometre no-go zone around the rumbling crater near Indonesia’s cultural capital Yogyakarta.

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