Sulawesi, Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi erupted on Sunday morning at around 6:03 a.m. local time, sending searing gas half dozen,000 meters into the air, however officers said it posed no danger nevertheless. There were no reports of casualties as of 8:00 a.m. and therefore the spokesman of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said there was to date no got to order an evacuation. "They nearest residents live thusme eight kilometers from the mountain and so evacuation isn't nevertheless necessary," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said on Sunday. Iing Kusnadi, a scientist at the volcano's monitoring post, told AFP that the counseled evacuation zone was set at a six-kilometer radius round the volcano however there is solely forest in that vary. Sutopo said heat clouds from the mountain were heading west. "Last night, at around eleven p.m., the mountain entered its eruption part," he said, adding that the native BNPB and therefore the Indonesian Red Cross were collaborating closely so as to forestall damages. Soputan, one among Sulawesi's most active volcanoes, last erupted in 2008 with no fatalities recorded.
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