Evacuation efforts are being hampered by thick smoke that has plunged nearby villages in darkness
One person has died after the highest volcano on Indonesia’s most densely populated island of Java spewed thick columns of ash high into the sky, triggering panic among people living nearby.
As well as the fatality, the volcanic eruption of Mount Semeru in East Java province caused 41 burn injuries, said the deputy district chief of Lumajang, an area nearby.
