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View all search resultsHundreds flee ahead of possible Merapi eruption
The evacuation is prioritizing vulnerable groups, namely the elderly, children, pregnant women and sick people, out of more than 500 potential evacuees living in nine hamlets closest to the top of Mount Merapi.
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uthorities have started evacuating hundreds of residents living from disaster-prone areas around Mount Merapi in Magelang, Central Java, following the warning of a potential eruption of the volcano in the near future.
The Magelang administration, with the help of the Indonesian Military, the National Police, disaster mitigation agencies and a group of volunteers, began transporting the residents with private cars, pick-up cars, minibuses and ambulances on Friday.
“Residents are being evacuated to designated ‘sister’ villages starting today,” the Magelang administration’s government and public welfare assistant, Nanda Cahyadi Pribadi, said on Friday as quoted by kompas.com.
The evacuation is prioritizing vulnerable groups, namely the elderly, children, pregnant women and sick people, out of more than 500 potential evacuees living in nine hamlets closest to the top of Mt. Merapi.
