Lava floods

  • Indonesia’s lava floods: Death toll hits 44 – and 15 people still missing

    At least 44 people were killed and 15 others went missing after cold lava floods struck Indonesia’s West Sumatra province on Saturday night, a senior official of local disaster agency said on Monday. Although many big stones and waste materials from the flooding hampered the searching for the victims, rescuers discovered another seven bodies in…

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  • 34 Dead after lava floods in Indonesia’s West Sumatra

    The death toll from lava floods that struck Indonesia’s West Sumatra province on Saturday rose to 34, with at least five others missing, a senior official of the local disaster agency said on Sunday. The rains poured down the area at the slope of the Marapi volcano on Saturday evening, triggering cold lava floods that…

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