Eleven hikers have been reportedly dead on Monday and twelve missing after a volcano erupted in Indonesia, with rescuers racing to carry injured and burned survivors down the mountain.
Our foreign Correspondent Confidence Ojuh has the details….
Eleven hikers have been reportedly found dead near the crater of Indonesia’s Marapi volcano after it erupted over the weekend.
Reports gathered that Three people were rescued on Monday as the search for twelve others missing has been suspended due to a small eruption.
According to the head of the Padang Search and Rescue Agency, Abdul Malik, the three people rescued, who were also found near the crater, were weak and had some burns adding that Forty-nine climbers were evacuated from the area earlier on Monday, many of whom also suffered burns.
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