'No warning': Indonesian village caught off guard in volcano disaster

FILE PHOTO: Houses that submerged following the eruption of Mount Semeru volcano are seen in Kamar Kajang, in Candipuro district, Lumajang, East Java province, Indonesia, December 9, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/File Photo

PENANGGAL, Indonesia (Reuters) - In the wake of the deadly Semeru eruption on Indonesia's Java island, the entwined bodies of a mother and daughter encased in molten ash have come to symbolise what many living in the shadow of the volcano feel went wrong.

"There was no warning. If there had been, there wouldn't have been victims, right?" said Minah, of her cousin Rumini, who died clutching her elderly mother as their kitchen roof caved in. Like many Indonesians, they use only one name.