JAKARTA: According to a local recovery official, at least 11 hikers have been discovered dead since the Marapi volcano erupted in eastern Indonesia on December 4.
On the island of Sumatra, Mount Marapi, which has a maximum of 2, 891 meters, erupted on Sunday, sending an ash tower 3, 000 meters into the air.
Abdul Malik, the director of the Padang Search and Rescue Agency, stated a day after the explosion that there are 26 individuals who have not been evacuated. We have discovered 14 of them, three of whom were found dead, and 11 were discovered dead.
He claimed that starting on Saturday, rescuers were attempting to find a total of 75 climbers on the hill.
He claimed that 49 had descended and that 12 were also missing, some of whom had been hospitalized.
According to West Sumatra’s natural resources protection company, rescue teams worked all night to help provide mountaineers to security.
Some of the freed climbers were receiving medical care, according to Rudy Rinaldi, brain of West Sumatra Disaster Mitigation Agency, who told AFP.
Because it was so popular, some people developed burn, and they were taken to the hospital, he said.
” Those who were hurt were the ones who drew nearer to the caldera.”
Authorities have imposed a three-kilometer rejection zone around Marapi’s crater because the city is on the next call level of the four-step system in Indonesia.
The Pacific Ring of Fire, where continental plates collide, is home to the Indonesian archipelago, which experiences intense geological and volcanic activity.
There are almost 130 effective mountains in Southeast Asia.