Indonesia's erupting volcano has turned deadly. At least 16 people were killed when Mount Sinabung, on the island of Sumatra, erupted again on Saturday.
Mount Sinabung has been erupting on and off since September, when it burst back into life after three years of dormancy. But this is the first time that the current spate of activity has killed anyone.
Despite their fearsome reputation, volcanic eruptions are rarely lethal these days because there is usually enough warning to evacuate the area. In this case, local people had been allowed back into the 5-kilometre exclusion zone around the volcano because volcanologists believed Sinabung was settling down.
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo was one of the three biggest eruptions of the 20th century and hundreds of thousands of people lived nearby, but the final death toll was fewer than 900. The last eruption to cause confirmed deaths was Nabro in Eritrea in 2011, which killed at least seven people.
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