Several villages were blanketed with falling ash, blocking out the sun, but no casualties have been reported.
Several hundred residents, their faces smeared with volcanic dust and rain, fled to temporary shelters or left for other safe areas.
Increased activities of the volcano on Sunday afternoon prompted authorities to widen the danger zone to 8 kilometers from the crater, said Hendra Gunawan, who heads the Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center. Semeru’s last major eruption was in December last year, when it blew up with fury that left 51 people dead in villages that were buried in layers of mud. Several hundred others suffered serious burns and the eruption forced the evacuation of more than 10,000 people. The government moved about 2,970 houses out of the danger zone.
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