Indonesia, Mount Merapi: Massive aid operation underway to help surivors of volcanic eruptions

The city of Yogyakarta, home to some three million residents, is now covered by a thin layer of ash. Torrential rains are now mixing with ash and debris and rushing down the slopes clogging rivers. Two villages have already experienced flooding as rivers swollen with black sticky mud burst their banks.

 

Photo credit: EU/ECHO/Mathias Eick

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