Merapi spews hot clouds, 500 evacuated

Dangerous beauty: Mount Merapi spewing volcanic steam from its crater in Central Java. — AP

Mount Merapi volcano spewed avalanches of hot clouds as hundreds more residents were evacuated from its fertile slopes.

Authorities evacuated more than 500 people living on the mountain in Magelang district on Java Island yesterday morning.

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