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MEDAN - The Mount Sinabung volcano on the island of Sumatra erupted again on Tuesday, it is the strongest in the five eruptions in the last two weeks, shooting ashes 5,000 metres into the air, but there is no report of casualties. The eruption sent hot ash rain toward south-east of Mount Sinabung, located in Karo district of North Sumatra.
The ashes did not disturb main routes of aviation, as they kept away from the main airport near the city of Medan. A spokesperson for the National Disaster Management Agency, Priyadi Kardono, said that the occurred at 00:23 a.m. Jakarta time Tuesday morning. The tremblors caused by the eruption could be felt up to eight kilometers away.
The Sinabung volcano first erupted on August 29, 2010 after being dormant for about four centuries. Some 30,000 people have been evacuated since then. Although thousands of evacuees have returned home after taking shelters for days, there were no injuries or fatality in the Tuesday's eruption, said Kardono.
A senior official of the agency in Karo district Darwis Sitinjak said that the police and authorities have warned the people not to enter the danger zone with a radius of six kilometers around the summit of the volcano. "We have evacuated all people from the inner danger zone already, but some people keep going back to tend for their crops or livestock."
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