To safer ground: Villagers leaving after salvaging their belongings from damaged or destroyed homes in Sumber Wuluh village, Lumajang, following Mount Semeru’s eruption. — AFP
RESCUERS dug out the body of a 13-year-old boy with their bare hands, as improved weather conditions allowed them to resume their search after the highest volcano on Indonesia’s Java island erupted with fury, killing at least 15 people with searing gas and ash and leaving 27 others missing.
Mount Semeru, the biggest mountain on the island of Java, thundered to life on Saturday, ejecting a mushroom of volcanic ash high into the sky and raining hot mud as thousands of panicked people fled their homes.
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