Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung erupts again after year of inactivity

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After being inactive for more than a year, Mount Sinabung in Karo regency, North Sumatra erupted early on Saturday morning. AsiaNewsNetwork

There were no casualties in the eruption, but several local residents living around the volcano were shocked by the event. The ash covered the residents’ plantation and killed crops.

“It is traumatic because it has been a year since the last time Mt. Sinabung erupted,” said Pelin on Saturday.Karo Disaster Mitigation Agency acting chairman Natanael Perangin-angin said the last time Sinabung erupted was in June 2019. “We thought we were safe. I hope there won’t be another eruption.”

Although the volcanic ash covered the districts, authorities said no residents had been displaced by the eruption, Natanael went on to say.Officials of the disaster agency, along with local military and police personnel, had distributed 1,500 masks and assisted locals in cleaning the volcanic ash. The local fire department dispatched five trucks to help the cleaning.

Sixteen people died in one of Sinabung’s eruptions in 2014. Two years later, another eruption killed seven people.

 

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