Mount Marapi spews volcanic ash from its crater in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia (Givo Alputra/AP)
Mount Marapi spews volcanic ash from its crater in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia (Givo Alputra/AP)
More than 50 climbers were rescued after Sunday’s initial eruption, and another 11 were shown dead first.
The bodies of two climbers were discovered on Monday and others on Tuesday, the National Search and Rescue Agency said.
One person remains missing, presumed dead.
Another eruption on Monday spewed a new burst of hot ash up to 800 meters (2,620 feet) high, halting search operations.
The latest discoveries of structures were made meters from the eruption site, said Edi Mardianto, deputy police chief of West Sumatra province.
Rescuers face bad weather and terrain limitations, as devastating wind brings heat from eruptions.
In a video released through the West Sumatra Search and Rescue Agency, rescuers evacuate an injured climber on a stretcher off the mountain and carry him to an ambulance waiting to be transported to hospital.
Marapi has remained at the third alert point out of four since 2011, a point that indicates higher-than-general volcanic activity, prohibiting climbers and villagers from being within 3 kilometers of the summit, according to the Indonesian Center for Volcanology and Geological Crisis Mitigation.
Climbers were only allowed below the danger zone, and they had to register at two command posts or online.
However, the local government said that many other people may have climbed higher than allowed and that citizens may have also been in the area, so it was necessary to check how many other people were stranded during the eruption.
Marapi spewed thick columns of ash as high as 3,000 metres (9,800 feet) in Sunday’s eruption and hot ash clouds spread for several kilometres.
Nearby towns and cities were covered in tons of volcanic debris blocking sunlight, and the government advised others to wear masks and goggles, if possible, to protect themselves from the ash.
About 1,400 other people live on the slopes of Marapi in Rubai and Gobah Cumantiang, the nearest villages, about five or six kilometers (3. 1 to 3. 7 mi) from the summit.
Marapi is known to have sudden eruptions that were difficult to stumble upon because the source is shallow and close to the peak, and its eruptions are not caused by deep magma movement, triggering tremors recorded on seismic monitors.
It has been active since an eruption in January that has caused no casualties. It is one of more than 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia, prone to seismic shaking due to its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanoes and faults surrounding the Pacific basin. .
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