Indonesia's most active volcano erupts, spews ash 5 km high
Mount Merapi, the most active of over 120 Indonesian volcanoes, erupted on Friday, sending an ash column as high as 5,500 metres into the sky. People living within 5 kilometres of the crater were evacuated while there are no immediate reports of casualties. Its last major eruption in 2010 killed 347 people and caused the evacuation of 20,000 villagers.