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Agence France-Presse

An Indonesian volcano erupted on Tuesday, sending a massive column of ash and smoke 2,000 metres into the air, coating local villages in debris.
Mount Sinabung on Sumatra island – which has been rumbling since 2010 and saw a deadly eruption in 2016 – spewed the thick plume after activity picked up in recent days.

Disaster agency officials said the eruption has the “potential” to affect flights, but it had not issued a formal notice for planes to avoid the area.
Local residents living along rivers near the crater were advised to be on the alert for possible lava flows.
There were no reports of injuries or deaths after the latest eruption and the disaster agency did not issue an evacuation order.
At least 16 dead after Indonesian volcano Mount Sinabung erupts
No one lives inside a previously announced no-go zone around the volcano.
Sinabung roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years. After another period of inactivity it erupted once more in 2013, and has remained highly active since.

In 2016, seven people died in one of Sinabung’s eruptions, while a 2014 eruption killed 16.
Indonesia is home to around 130 active volcanoes because of its position on the “Ring of Fire”, a belt of tectonic plate boundaries circling the Pacific Ocean where frequent seismic activity occurs.


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Indonesian volcano Mount Sinabung erupts again, spewing massive column of smoke and ash skywards

Mount Sinabung spews thick volcanic ash on May 7. Photo: Handout

This handout picture taken and released by Indonesia's Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB), the accident mitigation agency, on May 7, 2019 shows Mount Sinabung volcano spewing thick volcanic ash, as seen from Karo. - Sinabung roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years, after another period of inactivity it erupted once more in 2013, and has remained highly active since. (Photo by Handout / BADAN NASIONAL PENANGGULANGAN BENCANA (BNBP) / AFP)

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Sinabung roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years and has remained highly active since a second eruption in 2013
In 2014, 14 people died in one of its eruptions, while a further seven were killed in 2016


The volcano on Sumatra island roared back into life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years and was the site of a deadly eruption as recently as 2016.


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