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/ 17 October 2007

Indonesia on top alert for volcanic eruption

Fears of an imminent eruption prompted the evacuation of thousands of residents near Indonesia’s Mount Kelud on Wednesday, but many flouted the order and stayed at their homes around the rumbling Javanese volcano. The alert on the volcano, one of Indonesia’s deadliest and located 90km south-west of its second-largest city, Surabaya, was raised to maximum late on Tuesday.