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Quantity Death toll from Indonesia’s Marapi volcano eruption rises to 22 Tuesday after rescue teams found more climbers dead near the crater, the head of West Sumatra’s rescue

22 people died as a result of the eruption of Mount Marapi in Indonesia |  video

Quantity Death toll from Indonesia’s Marapi volcano eruption rises to 22 Tuesday after rescue teams found more climbers dead near the crater, the head of West Sumatra’s rescue agency said.

Around 200 rescue teams will resume the search for another missing climber this Wednesday.

The 2,891-meter-high volcano in West Sumatra province erupted this Sunday, throwing sky-gray ash clouds up to 3 kilometers high.

Abdul Malik– commented the head of the search and rescue team.

We are now evacuating bodies from the top of the volcano.

Rescue team recovers the body of the deceased | Photo: EFE

Marapi is one of the most active volcanoes on the island of Sumatra, last erupting in January and February this year.

Since 2011, the Indonesian Volcanology Agency has written monthly to the local environmental agency and the environment ministry to keep climbers away from within 3 kilometers of the summit, it said. Reuters agency head, Hendra Gunawan.

However, according to rescue teams, there were 75 climbers present when the volcano erupted.

Sunday’s eruption of Mount Marapi was the deadliest since 1979, when an eruption killed 60 people. Indonesia, part of the call ‘Ring of Fire’, There are more than 100 active volcanoes here.

(according to information from Reuters)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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