Indonesian volcano Mount Rokatenda erupts

Indonesian volcano Mount Rokatenda erupts, hot lava kills six people sleeping in village From: AP August 10, 2013 10:24PM Tweet inShare.0 3 .Increase Text SizeDecrease Text SizePrintEmail Share Add to DiggAdd to del.icio.usAdd to FacebookAdd to KwoffAdd to MyspaceAdd to NewsvineWhat are these? Mount Rokatenda volcano spews a huge column of hot ash during an eruption on Aug 10. Hot lava gushing from the volcano has killed six people who were sleeping in a nearby village. Picture: AFP Source: AFP GUSHING hot lava from an erupting volcano killed six people sleeping in a beach village in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, after ash and smoke shot up to 2000 metres into the air, a disaster official said. Mount Rokatenda in East Nusa Tenggara province erupted early Saturday morning, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. Nearly 3000 people were evacuated from the area on Palue island. The volcano has been rumbling since October 2012. The victims included three adults and two children, said agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. He said the age of the sixth person killed was unclear and that the children's bodies had not been recovered from Ponge beach in Rokirole village. Indonesia, an archipelago of 240 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity because it sits along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a horseshoe-shaped series of fault lines. Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world-news/indonesian-volcano-mount-rokatenda-erupts-hot-lava-kills-six-people-sleeping-in-village/story-fndir2ev-1226694874436#ixzz2berX9j4C