The 8-kilometre-high ash cloud from Mount Sinabung dwarfs this villager in the north of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Monday. The volcano rumbled back to life in 2010 after lying dormant for hundreds of years.
More than 6000 local people have been evacuated to temporary shelters – some had yet to return home following an eruption earlier this month.
Two thousand, five hundred kilometres away on Java, another Indonesian volcano also exploded into activity yesterday. Mount Merapi killed hundreds of people when it last erupted in 2010.
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