A village in Indonesia has been evacuated after a volcano erupted on Sunday afternoon on Java Island.
Almost 2,000 people have been evacuated from the east of Java Island after the Semeru volcano erupted on Sunday.
According to Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency, 1,979 people have been evacuated to 11 shelters while authorities offered masks to locals.
The volcano began erupting at around 2:45AM on Saturday morning and is spitting ash approximately 15km into the air.
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