Its not that often nowadays that people are killed from volcanic eruptions, due to their constant monitoring and precursory events leading up to an eruption, but yesterday it was confirmed that 6 people had died after an eruption on the island of Palue in Indonesia.
The volcano called Mt.Rokatenda situated 2000km East of Jakarta spewed hot ash and rocks several kilometres into the air. It is believed hot ash covered a nearby beach, leaving four adults
and two children dead. They were ignoring warnings from officials and a 3km exclusion zone which was set up last October underway. since which meant a large evacuation got underway.
It seems many villagers on the island, with a population of 10,000 people were now used to the volcanic activity and ignored the evacuation order.
In 2010 250,000 people were displaced and at least 350 people killed when Mt. Merapi in Java, one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia erupted.
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