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Indonesians set to flee as volcano rumbles(UPI Top Stories Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Thousands of Indonesia villagers are preparing to evacuate Java island as Mount Merapi rumbles awake with hot lava and thick clouds of smoke. Authorities expect an eruption, based on the number of tremors, and have put the area on the second highest alert level, Radio New Zealand said. Officials said the military had deployed more than 200 trucks and buses to evacuate villagers living on the slopes of Merapi, which is near Jogjakarta. Merapi's last major eruption was in 1994 when more than 60 people were killed. One of its most destructive eruptions was in 1930 when 1,300 people died. |