Sulawesi's latest disaster happened as search teams continue to recover bodies from buildings flattened by Friday's 7.5-magnitude quake and tsunami waves up to 20ft high. People living within a 2.5-mile radius of the volcano were told to flee amid fears that villages could be hit by lava and falling ash. Climbing routes were closed and police were tracing the whereabouts of people who were on the volcano before it erupted. Wednesday's eruptions came as hopes of finding people alive in rubble started to fade five days on from the earthquake and tsunami. In 2004, a major quake off Sumatra triggered a tsunami across the Indian Ocean, killing 226,000 people in 13 countries, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.

Source: Daily Mirror October 03, 2018 06:10 UTC