Mount Merapi Erupts

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Map shows area around Mount Merapi in Indonesia and updates situation.​

 

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Mount Merapi spews ash to the sky as seen from Cangkringan in Sleman, Yogyakarta, on November 8, 2010.​

 

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Ashes from the volcano eruption of Mount Merapi cover houses in Muntilan, central Java, on November 8, 2010.​

 

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Villagers watch as Mount Merapi spews volcanic materials in Cangkringan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010.​

 

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Indonesian army special forces look for victims of Mount Merapi eruption at Ngepringan village in Sleman, central Java on November 9, 2010.​

 

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Indonesian army special forces look for victims of Mount Merapi eruption at Ngepringan village in Sleman, central Java on November 9, 2010.​

 

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A soldiers from the Indonesian army special forces looks for victims of Mount Merapi eruption at Ngepringan village in Sleman, central Java on November 9, 2010.​

 

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Houses and trees are seen covered in ash from Merapi volcano's eruption in Muntilan, Magelang on November 8, 2010.​

 

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A general view ofhouses and trees covered with ashes from Merapi volcano's eruption taken in Muntilan, Magelang.​

 

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A melted radio-cassette tape recorder sits covered with volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Merapi in the abandoned village of Kaliadem, Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Nov. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Trisnadi)​

 

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Survivor Sri Sucirathaasri, 18, stands beside her injured sister Prisca in a hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Nov. 5, 2010. The hospital at the foot of Indonesia's most volatile volcano is struggling to cope with victims brought in after the mountain's most powerful eruption in a century. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)​

 

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Volunteers rescue burned victims of Mount Merapi eruption in Argomulyo village, devastated by deadly hot clouds of volcanic ash early on November 5, 2010. (SUSANTO/AFP/Getty Images)​

 

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Houses are in flames as volunteers rescue burned victims of an eruption of Mount Merapi in Argomulyo village early on November 5, 2010. (SUSANTO/AFP/Getty Images)​

 

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Bodies of victims of an eruption of Mount Merapi rest amongst ashes and debris in front of a house in Argomulyo village, Cangkringan, in Sleman November 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Aditia Surya)​

 

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Rescuers remove the charred remain of the body of a victim of Mount Merapi eruption in Argomulyo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Trisnadi)​

 

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Villagers flee their homes following another eruption Mount Merapi in Klaten ,Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)​

 

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A view from a domestic flight from Denpasar to Yogyakarta that was subsequently diverted to Surabaya airport shows a plume of gas and ash billowing some 10 km (six mi) high from Mount Merapi, during an eruption on November 4, 2010. (CLARA PRIMA/AFP/Getty Images)​

 

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Mount Merapi spews volcanic material as a statue is silhouetted in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010.​

 

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A villager looks at Mount Merapi spewing smoke and ash, at Ketep in Magelang, Indonesia's central Java province, November 9, 2010.​

 

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Villagers look at Mount Merapi spewing smoke and ash during sunrise at Ketep in Magelang, Indonesia's central Java province, November 9, 2010​